United Nations
A/RES/61/183
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 March 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 99
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/445)]
61/183. International cooperation against the world drug problem
The General Assembly,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 1 the provisions of the
2005 World Summit Outcome 2 addressing the world drug problem, its resolution
60/178 of 16 December 2005 and its other previous resolutions,
Reaffirming the Political Declaration adopted by the General Assembly at its
twentieth special session 3 and the importance of meeting the objectives targeted for
2008,
Reaffirming also the joint ministerial statement adopted at the ministerial
segment of the forty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 4 the
Action Plan 5 for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of
Drug Demand Reduction 6 and the Action Plan on International Cooperation on the
Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development, 7
Gravely concerned that, despite continued increased efforts by States, relevant
organizations, civil society and non-governmental organizations, the drug problem
continues to constitute a serious threat to public health and safety and the well-being
of humanity, in particular children and young people, and to the national security
and sovereignty of States, and that it undermines socio-economic and political
stability and sustainable development,
Concerned by the serious challenges and threats posed by the continuing links
between illicit drug trafficking and terrorism and other national and transnational
criminal activities and transnational criminal networks, inter alia, trafficking in
human beings, especially women and children, money-laundering, financing of
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1
See resolution 55/2.
See resolution 60/1.
3
Resolution S-20/2, annex.
4
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 8 (E/2003/28/Rev.1),
chap. I, sect. C; see also A/58/124, sect. II.A.
5
Resolution 54/132, annex.
6
Resolution S-20/3, annex.
7
Resolution S-20/4 E.
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