Preparation of a Draft Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances

A/RES/42/111View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 104b Draft Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, published in 1988.

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4 versions · 1986–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/120

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/120	Preparation of a draft Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/111	Preparation of a draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances	687	30%Compare
1987	A/RES/41/126	Preparation of a draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances	778	32%Compare
1986	A/RES/40/120	Preparation of a draft Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances	1,206	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Conferences Drug Control Drug Traffic Groups of Experts Narcotic Drugs Psychotropic Substances Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Expresses its appreciation to and commends the Secretary-General for the report121 submitted to the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on progress achieved in the preparation of a new convention against illicit traffic in drugs;

Underlines the importance of the appeal made in paragraph 3 of the Declaration of the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, 122 in which the Conference called for the urgent but careful preparation and finalization, taking into account the various aspects of illicit trafficking, of the draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances to ensure its entry into force at the earliest possible date as a complement to existing international instruments;

Welcomes the report ofthe meeting ofthe Intergovernmental Expert Group on the preparation of the draft

convention, 123 drawn up in accordance with Commission on Narcotic Drugs resolution 1 (XXXII) of 10 February 1987,124 and urges Member States to submit in due course their observations on the draft revised by the Expert Group;

Requests the Secretary-General, using existing resources, to consider the possibility of convening the Intergovernmental Expert Group for a period oftwo weeks immediately prior to the tenth special session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in order to continue the revision of the working paper on the draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and, if possible, to reach agreement on the convention;

Requests the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, through the Economic and Social Council, to consider and, if possible, approve at its tenth special session the draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, and to prepare recommendations on the next measures to be taken with a view to concluding the preparation of the convention, including the possibility of convening a plenipotentiary conference in 1988 for its adoption;

Requests the Secretary-General to make the necessary administra ti ve arrangements for the convening of any agreed plenipotentiary conference in 1988 for the signing of the convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances;

Once again urges ali States that have not yet done so to ratify orto accede to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution.

118 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Cou11cil. /986. Supp/ement No. 3 (E/1986/23), chap. X, sect. A.

lf9 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 976, No. 14152.

120 [bid., vol. 1019, No. 14956.

121 A/CONF.133/5.

122 Report of the International Conference on Drug Abuse and 11/icit Trafficking, Vienna. 17-26 June 1987 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.1.18), chap. 1, sect. B.

126 Report of the International Conference on Drug Abuse and 11/icit 124 See Official Recards af the Ecanomic and Social Caunci/, 1987,

Trafficking, Vienna, 17-26 June 1987 (United Nations publication, Sales

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