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effectiveness of the Programme, inter alia, through the full implementation of resolution
44/16 of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, in particular the recommendations
contained therein;
(b) To strengthen cooperation with Member States and with United Nations
programmes, funds and relevant agencies, as well as relevant regional organizations
and agencies and non-governmental organizations, and to provide, on request,
assistance in implementing the outcome of the special session;
(c) To increase its technical assistance, within the available voluntary
resources, to countries that are deploying efforts to reduce illicit crop cultivation by,
in particular, adopting alternative development programmes;
(d) To allocate, while keeping the balance between supply and demand
reduction programmes, adequate resources to allow it to fulfil its role in the
implementation of the Action Plan2 for the Implementation of the Declaration on the
Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction;3
(e) To strengthen dialogue and cooperation with multilateral development
banks and with international financial institutions so that they may undertake
lending and programming activities related to drug control in interested and affected
countries to implement the outcome of the special session, and to keep the
Commission on Narcotic Drugs informed of further progress made in this area;
(f) To take into account the outcome of the special session, to include in its
report on illicit traffic in drugs an updated, objective and comprehensive assessment
of worldwide trends in illicit traffic and transit in narcotic drugs and psychotropic
substances, including methods and routes used, and to recommend ways and means
of improving the capacity of States along those routes to deal with all aspects of the
drug problem;
(g) To publish the World Drug Report, with comprehensive and balanced
information about the world drug problem, and to seek additional extrabudgetary
resources for its publication in all official languages;
4.
Urges all Governments to provide the fullest possible financial and
political support to the Programme by widening its donor base and increasing
voluntary contributions, in particular general-purpose contributions, to enable it to
continue, expand and strengthen its operational and technical cooperation activities;
5.
Calls upon the International Narcotics Control Board to increase efforts
to implement all its mandates under international drug control conventions and to
continue to cooperate with Governments, inter alia, by offering advice to Member
States that request it;
6.
Notes that the Board needs sufficient resources to carry out all its
mandates, and therefore urges Member States to commit themselves in a common
effort to assigning adequate and sufficient budgetary resources to the Board, in
accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/20 of 23 July 1996,
and emphasizes the need to maintain its capacity, inter alia, through the provision of
appropriate means by the Secretary-General and adequate technical support by the
Programme;
7.
Stresses the importance of the meetings of Heads of National Drug Law
Enforcement Agencies, in all regions of the world, and the Subcommission on Illicit
Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East of the Commission on
Narcotic Drugs, and encourages them to continue to contribute to the strengthening
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