A/RES/59/161 1. Welcomes the bilateral and multilateral support being provided by the international community, through the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other organizations; Expresses its support for the efforts of Member States aimed at 2. strengthening regional cooperation in order to counter the threat to the international community posed by the illicit cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan and its illicit trade; Calls upon the international community to enhance financial and 3. technical support to Afghanistan in order to enable the Government to implement successfully its national drug control strategy and thereby reduce the demand for illicit drugs in Afghanistan and the threat that illicit opium poppy cultivation and illicit opium trade have created to the peace, stability and socio-economic recovery of Afghanistan and to the security of the region and the other parts of the world; Urges all stakeholders to accelerate efforts to implement a combined 4. strategy, comprising law enforcement, eradication, interdiction, demand reduction and awareness-building, including alternative livelihoods conceived in a broader development context than currently understood, with a view to creating sustainable livelihoods, independent of illicit opium; Encourages the Transitional Administration of Afghanistan to accelerate 5. the implementation of the commitment that it courageously made to the five action plans adopted by the International Counter-Narcotics Conference on Afghanistan, held in Kabul on 8 and 9 February 2004; Reaffirms the need to strengthen measures to reduce the global demand 6. for illicit drugs, in order to support and contribute to the sustainability of efforts to eliminate illicit opium in Afghanistan; Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the 7. availability of voluntary funds, which might be either from general-purpose funds, in accordance with the Commission on Narcotic Drugs guidelines for the use of general-purpose funds, 9 or from earmarked funds, and encourages concerned Member States, international organizations and financial institutions to routinely mainstream counter-narcotics measures as part of their development cooperation strategies, in coordination with the development objectives of the Government of Afghanistan, so that sustainable alternative livelihoods are created in Afghanistan. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2004 _______________ 9 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 8 (E/2001/28/Rev.1), part two, chap. I, resolution 44/20, annex. 3