United Nations
A/RES/69/200
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/490)]
69/200. Special session of the General Assembly on the world drug
problem to be held in 2016
The General Assembly
1.
Welcomes Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 57/5 of 21 March
2014,1 and notes with satisfaction the support expressed at the high-level review by
the Commission of the progress made by Member States 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 Problem2 for the decision
taken by the General Assembly in its resolution 67/193 of 20 December 2012 to
convene a special session on the world drug problem early in 2016, in implementation
of the recommendation contained in paragraph 40 of the Political Declaration;
2.
Urges States that have not done so to consider ratifying or acceding to, and
States parties to implement, as a matter of priority, all the provisions of the Single
Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, 3 the
Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 19714 and the United Nations Convention
against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988;5
3.
Stresses the importance of the special session on the world drug problem
in 2016, as noted in Commission resolution 57/5, as a milestone on the way to 2019,
which has been set as the target date in the Political Declaration for the review of
implementation;
4.
Reaffirms that, at its special session on the world drug problem in 2016,
it will address substantive issues on the basis of the principle of common and shared
responsibility and in full conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter
of the United Nations, international law and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights,6 and in particular with respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of
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1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2014, Supplement No. 8 (E/2014/28), chap. I,
sect. C.
2
Ibid., 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. I, sect. C.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 976, No. 14152.
4
Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956.
5
Ibid., vol. 1582, No. 27627.
6
Resolution 217 A (III).
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