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(i) To provide technical assistance, from available voluntary contributions
for that purpose, to those States identified by relevant international bodies as the
most affected by the transit of drugs, in particular developing countries in need of
such assistance and support;
(j) To provide assistance, at the request of States and respecting fully their
sovereignty and territorial integrity, in monitoring illicit crop cultivation and in
detecting on time its emergence or relocation;
Welcomes also the follow-up, led by the United Nations Office on Drugs
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and Crime, to the 2003 Paris Conference on Drug Routes from Central Asia to
Europe (the Paris Pact), 17 encourages the Office and other relevant international
institutions to continue their efforts, and encourages the Office to develop similar
strategies in other regions for countries affected by the transit of illicit drugs
through their territory;
Takes note of the outcome of the “Thematic debate on drug abuse
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prevention, treatment and rehabilitation: (a) Community capacity-building;
(b) Preventing HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases in the context of drug
abuse prevention”, held by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at its forty-eighth
session; 18
8.
Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the
availability of resources and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs guidelines for the
use of general-purpose funds, 19 together with international financial institutions and
the organizations involved in preventing and suppressing money-laundering and
drug trafficking, to facilitate the provision of training and advice through technical
cooperation in States, when requested, taking into account, inter alia, the
recommendations on money-laundering and the financing of terrorism formulated
by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and its regional groups;
Urges all Governments to provide the fullest possible financial and
9.
political support to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime by widening its
donor base and increasing voluntary contributions, in particular general-purpose
contributions, to enable it to continue, expand and strengthen its operational and
technical cooperation activities, and recommends that a sufficient share of the
regular budget of the United Nations be allocated to the Office to enable it to carry
out its mandates and to work towards securing assured and predictable funding;
10. Encourages the meetings of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement
Agencies and of the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in
the Near and Middle East of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to continue to
contribute to the strengthening of regional and international cooperation, taking into
account the outcome of the twentieth special session of the General Assembly and
of the ministerial segment of the forty-sixth session of the Commission;4
11. Calls upon the relevant United Nations agencies and entities, other
international organizations and international financial institutions, including
regional development banks, to mainstream drug control issues into their
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See S/2003/641.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 8 (E/2005/28/Rev.1),
chap. II.
19
Ibid., 2001, Supplement No. 8 (E/2001/28/Rev.1), part two, chap. I, resolution 44/20, annex.
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