A/RES/56/124 II International cooperation to counter the world drug problem 1. Urges all States to take appropriate action to address the linkages between the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and the illicit trade in narcotic drugs through, inter alia, increased international cooperation and by ensuring full implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects;5 2. Welcomes the renewed commitment made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 13 to counter the world drug problem; 3. Urges competent authorities, at the international, regional and national levels, to implement the outcome of the twentieth special session, within the agreed time frames, in particular the high-priority practical measures at the international, regional or national level, as indicated in the Political Declaration,1 the Action Plan2 for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction 3 and the measures to enhance international cooperation to counter the world drug problem, 4 including the Action Plan against Illicit Manufacture, Trafficking and Abuse of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and Their Precursors, 14 the measures to prevent the illicit manufacture, import, export, trafficking, distribution and diversion of precursors used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, 15 the measures to promote judicial cooperation, 16 the measures to counter money-laundering 17 and the Action Plan on International Cooperation on the Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development; 8 4. Urges all Member States to implement the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction in their respective national, regional and international actions and to strengthen their national efforts to counter the abuse of illicit drugs among their population, in particular among children and young people; 5. Recognizes the role of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme in developing action-oriented strategies to assist Member States to implement the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration, and requests the Executive Director of the Programme to report to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at its forty-fifth session on the follow-up to the Action Plan; 6. Reaffirms its resolve to continue to strengthen the United Nations machinery for international drug control, in particular the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the United Nations International Drug Control Programme and the International Narcotics Control Board, in order to enable them to fulfil their mandates, bearing in mind the recommendations contained in Economic and Social Council resolution 1999/30 and the measures taken and recommendations adopted by the Commission on _______________ 13 See resolution 55/2. Resolution S-20/4 A. 15 See resolution S-20/4 B. 16 Resolution S-20/4 C. 17 Resolution S-20/4 D. 14 5