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Convention on Psychotropic Substances

A/RES/3443(XXX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

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2 subjects

Psychotropic Substances Treaties

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3384 (XXX), Declaration on the Use of Scientific and Technologieal Progress in the Interests of Peace and for the Benefit of Mankind

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Ali States shall promote international co-operation to ensure that the results of scientific and technological developments are used in the intere~ts of strengthening internationa1 peace and sec-urity,

freedom and independence, and also for the purpose of the economic and social development of peop]es and the realization of human rights lllld freedoms in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.

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All States shall take appropriate measures to prevent the use of scientific and technological devel- General Asaembl,--Thirtieth Seuion

opments, particularly by the State organs, to limit or interfere with the enjoyment of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the individual as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other relevant international instruments.

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All States shall take measures to ensure that scientific and technological achievements satisfy the material and spiritual needs of all sectors of the population.

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All States shall refrain from any acts involving the use of scientific and technological achievements for the purposes of violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other Stares, interfering in their interna! affairs, waging aggressive wars, suppressing national liberation movements or pursuing a policy of racial discrimination. Such acts are not only a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and principies of international law, but constitute an inadmissible distortion of the purposes that should guide scientific and technological developments for the benefit of mankind.

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All States shall co-operate in the establishment, strengthening and development of the scientific and technological capacity of developing countries with a view to accelerating the realization of the social and economic rights of the peoples of those countries.

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All States shall take measures to extend the benefits of science and technology to all strata of the population and to protect them, both socially and materially, from possible harmful effects of the misuse of scientific and technological developments, including their misuse to infringe upon the rights of the individual or of the group, particularly with regard to respect for privacy and the protection of the human personality and its physical and intellectual integrity.

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AH Sta tes shall take the necessary measures, including Iegislative measures, to ensure that the utilization of scientific and technological achievements promotes the fullest realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination. ~hatsoever on grounds of raoe, sex, language or rehg1ous beliefs.

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All States shall take eflective measures includin~ _Ieg!slative m~asu!es, to pre~nt and preciude the utilizatton of sc1~ntific and technological achievements to the detnment of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the dignity of the human person. . 9. AH States sh~1, whenever necessary, take ac- !1on to ensu~e comphance with 1egis1ation guaranteem~ h1;1man nghts and freedoms in the conditions of sc1ent1fic and technological developments.

2400th plenary meetinK

10 November 1975

344._1 (XXX).

1971 Convention on Psychotropic Suhstances

The General Assembly, Recal/ing its resolution 3147 (XXVIII) of 14 De- ~ember _ 1973, in which it stressed the importance to t~rernational di:ug control of universal accession to the Smg]e Convent1on on Narcotic Drugs, 1961,D the 1971

9 United Nations, Treaty Series. vol. 520, No. 7515, p. 151.

Convention on Psychotro~ic Substances_1º and the 19~2 Protocol Amending the Smgle Convention on N arcotic Drugs, 1961,11

Expressing its satisfaction that d~ring 1975 ~veral additional States have become parties to those mstruments,

Mindful, however, that the 1971 Conve1:1tion on Psychotropic Substances has not yet entered mto force,

Convinced that the entry into force of that Convention would constitute an important step towards the establishment of effective intemational control of the licit trade and the prevention of illicit traffic in psychotropic substances,

Recognizing the need to mai~tain m?mentum in the systematic strengthening of the mtemat1onal drug control system,

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Expresses the hope that the 1971 ~onvention on Psychotropic Substances will soon enter mto force;

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Urges ali States not yet parties to that Convention, in particular those which are directly concem~ in ,the manufacture and production of and trade m psychotropic substances, to take urgent action to adhere to it;

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Requests the Secretary,;,General to transmit the present appeal to the Govemments of those States.

3444 (XXX). 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961

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Invites Govemments to co-operare fully with the Intemational N arcotics Control Board in its efforts to carry out its increased responsibilities;

10 See Of!icial Record, o/ the United Natlons Conference for the adoption of a Protocol on Psychotroplc S~b,tance,, vol. I (Uruted Nations publication, Sales No. E.73.xl.3), pert four.

11 See Of/iclal Records of. tlu United Nations Conference to consider amtndments to the Single Conventlon on Narcotlc Drugs, 1961, vol. I (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.73Xil.7), part three.

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Invites the Secretary-General to continue to pr~ vide the support necessary to enable the _B~~d and 1ts secretariat to assume these new respons1b1hties;

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Requests the competent United Nations organs, especially the Unired Nations Fwtd for _Drug ~buse Control and the specialized agencies to g1ve particular attentio~ to recommendations made by the B?ard c<;>ncerning the provision of technical and financial assts!- ance to -support Govemments' efforts to carry out the!r obligations under the Single Convention on Narcottc Drugs, 1961.12

3445 (XXX). Adequate priority for narcotics control

Requests the Secretary-General, in preparing and presenting the proposed_ )1.r~e budge~ and the medium-term plan, to g1ve particular attention to the resources requested for th~ competent United Nations bodies and tbeir secretariats, in view of this increased work in drug control, in o'rder to ensure th~t,. ~ the light of the importance attdbuted to these aetivities by the General Assembly and 1the Economic and Social Council, adequate priority will be given and the m:lCCSsary resources allocated.

3446 (XXX). United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control