United Nations
A/RES/59/161
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)]
59/161. Providing support to the Government of Afghanistan in its
efforts to eliminate illicit opium and foster stability and
security in the region
The General Assembly,
Recalling the United Nations Millennium Declaration 1 outlining the interrelated
commitments, goals and targets to be achieved on, inter alia, development, peace
and security and setting the required framework for international cooperation for
achieving those goals,
Recognizing that the threat emanating from illicit opium poppy cultivation and
production of and trafficking in illicit opium, as addressed at the Conference on
Drug Routes from Central Asia to Europe, held in Paris on 21 and 22 May 2003, is a
serious challenge to the security and stability of Afghanistan, its neighbouring
countries and the region and poses a problem for countries throughout the world,
Taking note of Afghanistan: Opium Survey 2003, published by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
Recognizing the strong and continuing commitment made by the Transitional
Administration of Afghanistan at the institutional, legal and administrative levels to
eliminate opium poppy cultivation by 2013,
Reaffirming the commitments undertaken by Member States in the Political
Declaration adopted by the General Assembly at its twentieth special session, 2 in
which Member States recognized that action against the world drug problem was a
common and shared responsibility and expressed their conviction that it must be
addressed in a multilateral setting,
Recalling that the Security Council, on 17 June 2003, called upon the
international community to provide assistance to the Transitional Administration of
Afghanistan in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
and in line with the national drug control strategy, 3
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1
See resolution 55/2.
Resolution S-20/2, annex.
3
See S/PRST/2003/7; see Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council, 1 August 2002–31 July 2003.
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