A/RES/70/181
United Nations
Distr.: General
8 January 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 107
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/491)]
70/181. Special session of the General Assembly on the world drug
problem to be held in 2016
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 67/193 of 20 December 2012, entitled “International
cooperation against the world drug problem”, in which it decided to convene, in
early 2016, a special session on the world drug problem to review the progress made
in the implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on
International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter
the World Drug Problem, 1 including an assessment of the achievements and
challenges in countering the world drug problem, within the framework of the three
international drug control conventions and other relevant United Nations
instruments,
Recalling also its resolutions 68/197 of 18 December 2013 and 69/201 of
18 December 2014, entitled “International cooperation against the world drug
problem”,
Recalling further its resolution 69/200 of 18 December 2014, entitled “Special
session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem to be held in 2016”,
1.
Welcomes Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 58/8 of 17 March 2015;2
2.
Decides that the special session of the General Assembly on the world
drug problem shall be convened for three days, from 19 to 21 April 2016, at United
Nations Headquarters in New York, following the fifty-ninth session of the
Commission on Narcotic Drugs, scheduled to be held in March 2016;
3.
Also decides that the organizational arrangements for the special session
shall be as follows:
(a) The special session shall consist of a general debate and interactive,
multi-stakeholder round tables conducted in parallel with the plenary;
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. I,
sect. C.
2
Ibid., 2015, Supplement No. 8 (E/2015/28), chap. I, sect. C.
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