A/RES/72/198
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
29 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 108
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/441)]
72/198.
International cooperation to address and counter the world
drug problem
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the outcome document of the thirtieth special session of the General
Assembly, entitled “Our joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering
the world drug problem”, 1 in its entirety, reiterating that the operational
recommendations contained therein are integrated, indivisible, multidisciplinary and
mutually reinforcing and are aimed at a comprehensive, integrated and balanced
approach to addressing and countering the world drug problem,
Reaffirming also the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International
Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug
Problem 2 and the Joint Ministerial Statement of the 2014 high-level review by the
Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the implementation by Member States of the
Political Declaration and Plan of Action, 3 and recalling the resolutions adopted at the
twentieth special session of the General Assembly, 4
Recalling other relevant United Nations resolutions, including General
Assembly resolution 71/211 of 19 December 2016,
Recalling also all resolutions adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at
its sixtieth session, 5
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Resolution S-30/1, annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28),
chap. I, sect. C.
Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 8 (E/2014/28), chap. I, sect. C.
Resolutions S-20/1, S-20/2, S-20/3 and S-20/4 A–E.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2017, Supplement No. 8 (E/2017/28),
chap. I.
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