A/RES/59/160 Aware of the importance of programmes promoting alternative development, including, where appropriate, preventive alternative development, Emphasizing the primary importance of international cooperation in combating drug trafficking and drug abuse, 1. Welcomes the 2003 cannabis survey conducted by Morocco in cooperation with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; 2. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the 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, 7 or from earmarked funds, to begin a global survey of cannabis, initially with a market survey, before the forty-eighth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs; Also requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to support 3. the creation or strengthening of national and subregional strategies and plans of action for the eradication of cannabis crops, subject to the 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, or from earmarked funds; Urges Member States, in accordance with the principle of shared 4. responsibility and as a sign of their commitment to the fight against illicit drugs, to extend cooperation to affected States, particularly in Africa, in the area of alternative development, including funding for research into crops offering viable alternatives to cannabis, environmental protection and technical assistance; Encourages Member States with experience and expertise in the 5. eradication of illicit drug crops and alternative development programmes to share their experience and expertise with affected States, particularly in Africa; Urges all Member States to encourage appropriate access to international 6. markets for products of alternative development projects in order to support efforts aimed at eliminating the production of narcotic drugs and promoting sustainable development; Encourages Member States to apply new strategies and tools to 7. complement existing ones in efforts to combat trafficking in cannabis; 8. Calls upon all States to ensure strict compliance with all the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961,1 that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol,2 the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 19713 and the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988;4 9. Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to report to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at its forty-eighth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2004 _______________ 7 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. 2