Reiterates its appeal to all States not yet parties to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961,88 and the Convention on Psycho-
84 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 520, No. 7515, p. 151.
85 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.77.XI.3, p. 13.
86 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.78.XI.3, p. 7.
87 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.IV.2 and corrigendum, para. 28.
88 See Official Records of the United Nations Conference to consider amendments to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, vol. I (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.XI.7), part three.
tropic Substances, 1971, to take steps to accede to these instruments in order to achieve their universal application and requests the Secretary-General to transmit this appeal to all Governments concerned;
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InvitesGovernments to co-operate fully with the International Narcotics Control Board and to supply such information as may be necessary to enable it to make meaningful long-range studies and projections designed to promote the maintenance of a world-wide balance between the supply of narcotic raw materials and the legitimate demand for medical and scientific purposes;
3
Supports the Board's appeal to States to improve their reporting machinery, with the assistance of the Board, so that they may provide full and prompt information to the Board, thereby enabling it to perform effectively its functions under the relevant treaties;
4
UrgesGovernments to support the work of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, to provide complete data and information to the Secretary-General in their annual reports and individual seizure reports as required under the relevant treaties and in response to the Secretary-General's request, and to inform him also without specific requests of any new developments, trends and measures discernible in the drug field which could be of importance or relevance to improved international drug control;
5
InvitesGovernments, in co-operation with competent bodies of the United Nations and the specialized agencies, to increase their joint efforts to eradicate illicit or uncontrolled cultivation of narcotic plants and illicit or uncontrolled manufacture of psychotropic substances in order to ensure a continuing equilibrium between licit supply and licit demand, and to avoid unforeseen imbalances caused by sales of seized and confiscated drugs;
6
Calls for more extensive and effective efforts of Governments, in co-operation with competent bodies of the United Nations and the specialized agencies in order to facilitate appropriate designing and implementation of programmes aimed at eradicating illicit demand for and illicit marketing of drugs and at furthering exchange of experience and information among scientists and experts from various nations who are actively engaged in this field;
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Reiterates its appeal to Governments for increased and sustained contributions to the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control and to all international and multilateral organizations and institutions to co-operate with and to support financially the United Nations efforts undertaken through drug control programmes;
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Requeststhe Commission on Narcotic Drugs to undertake at its twenty-eighth session the finalization and implementation of the comprehensive programme of international drug abuse control strategy and policies and requests the Secretary-General to assist the Commission in the implementation of this programme, the progress of which should be monitored by the Commission to ensure that, if necessary, appropriate adjustments in the programme can be made to enable it to meet new requirements of international drug control which might arise out of new developments concerning various aspects of the drug problem;
Requests the Economic and Social Council to give at its first regular session of 1979 due consideration to these questions.
