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2. Urges all States to ratify or accede to and implement all the provisions of the Single Convention
on Narcotic Drugs of 19617 as amended by the 1972 Protocol,8 the Convention on Psychotropic Substances
of 19719 and the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances of 1988;10
3. Calls upon all States to adopt adequate national laws and regulations, to strengthen national judicial
systems and to carry out effective drug control activities in cooperation with other States in accordance with
those international instruments;
4.
Requests the United Nations International Drug Control Programme:
(a) To continue to support the focus on regional, subregional and national strategies for drug abuse
control, particularly the master-plan approach, and to complement those strategies with effective interregional
strategies;
(b) To undertake additional measures to strengthen the dialogue and cooperation with multilateral
development banks so that they may undertake lending and programming activities related to drug control
in interested and affected countries and to keep the Commission on Narcotic Drugs informed on further
progress made in this area;
(c) To continue to provide legal assistance to Member States that request it in adjusting their national
laws, policies and infrastructures to implement the international drug control conventions, as well as
assistance in training personnel responsible for applying the new laws;
(d) To continue providing assistance to Member States requesting support in establishing or
strengthening national drug detection laboratories;
(e) To continue to include in its report on illicit traffic in drugs an 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 for improving the capacity of States along those routes to deal with all
aspects of the drug problem;
5. Reaffirms the danger and threat posed to civil society by illicit drug trafficking and its links to
terrorism, transnational crime, money laundering and the illicit arms trade, and encourages Governments to
deal with this threat and to cooperate to prevent the channelling of funds to and between those engaged in
such activities;
6. Calls upon States to adopt effective measures to stem the illicit trade in small arms, which, as a
result of its close link to the illicit drug trade, is generating extremely high levels of crime and violence
within the societies of some States, threatening the national security and economies of those States;
8
Ibid., vol. 976, No. 14152.
9
Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956.
10
See Official Records of the United Nations Conference for the Adoption of a Convention against Illicit
Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Vienna, 25 November-20 December 1988, vol. I
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.XI.5).
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