United Nations A/RES/59/162 General Assembly Distr.: General 8 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 97 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2004 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/59/495)] 59/162. Follow-up on strengthening the systems of control over chemical precursors and preventing their diversion and trafficking The General Assembly, Concerned about the continued diversion and misuse of precursors and the fact that, despite efforts undertaken by all States, including the producing, exporting, importing and transit States, chemical substances are increasingly feeding the manufacture of illicit drugs of natural or synthetic origin, a problem that deserves the utmost attention of all States, Recalling the Political Declaration adopted by the General Assembly at its twentieth special session, devoted to countering the world drug problem together, 1 in which Member States decided to establish 2008 as a target date for States to eliminate or considerably reduce the diversion of precursors, Recalling also the Joint Ministerial Statement and further measures to implement the action plans emanating from the twentieth special session of the General Assembly, adopted during the ministerial segment of the forty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 2 Stressing the importance of Economic and Social Council resolutions 2003/32 and 2003/35 of 22 July 2003 on training in precursor control, countering money-laundering and drug abuse prevention, and on strengthening the prevention and suppression of illicit drug trafficking, Recalling article 12, paragraphs 1, 9 (c) and 10, of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988, 3 Reaffirming the importance of using all available legal means or measures to prevent the diversion of chemicals from legitimate trade to illicit drug manufacture as an essential component of comprehensive strategies against drug abuse and _______________ 1 Resolution S-20/2, annex. A/58/124, sect. II.A. 3 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1582, No. 27627. 2 04-48598