International Campaign Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

A/RES/42/113View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 104c Implementation of General Assembly resolution 41/127 : report of the Secretary-General, published in 1988.

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2 versions · 1988–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/122

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/122	International campaign against drug abuse and illicit trafficking	—	—
1988	A/RES/42/113	International campaign against drug abuse and illicit trafficking	1,271	–

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14 operative paragraphs

Condemns unequivocally once again drug trafficking in ali its forms-illicit production, processing, marketing and consumption-as a criminal activity, and requests ali States to pledge their political will in a concerted and universal struggle to achieve its complete and final elimination;

Urges States to acknowledge that they share responsibility for combating the problem of illicit consumption, production, transit and trafficking and therefore to encourage international co-operation in the struggle to eliminate illicit production and trafficking and the abuse of drugs and psychotropic substances, in accordance with the relevant intemational and national norms;

Acknowledges the constant and determined etforts of Govemments at the national, regional and international levels to cope with the increase in drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking and its increasingly close links with other forms of organized international criminal activities;

Notes with appreciation the unanimous adoption of the Declaration 122 and the adoption by consensus of the Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Outline of Future Activities in Drug Abuse Control127 by the Intemational Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, and urges States to carry out the recommendations contained in those documents in a determined and sustained manner;

Takes note of the First Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, African Region, held at Addis Ababa from 30 March to 3 April 1987, the First Meeting of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Latín American and Caribbean Region, held at Santiago from 28 September to 2 October 1987, and the Meeting of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Asia and the Pacific Region, held at Tokyo from 30 November to 4 December 1987, and requests the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to consider their recommendations at its tenth special session, in order to determine the specific measures required for implementation thereof, for possible adoption by the Economic and Social Council at its next session;

Encourages States to use the meetings of the working group of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs for the purpose of exchanging experiences in their struggle against the illicit transit of drugs and psychotropic substances and to increase regional and interregional cooperation in this matter;

Reiterates once again its request to the Secretary- General to continue to make the necessary arrangements for holding, within the framework of advisory services, interregional seminars on the experience gained within the United Nations system in integrated rural development programmes that include the substitution of illegal crops in atfected areas, including the Andean region;

Commends the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control for the productive work that it has done as one ofthe main bodies ofthe United Nations system providing technical co-operation in the field of drug abuse control, and encourages it to continue its activities, paying particular attention to requests from developing countries;

Calls upon ali States to continue and increase their political support of and financial contributions to the Fund, and encourages its Executive Director to continue systematically and consistently strengthening the activities of the Fund in atfected countries and regions, so as to enable them to combat ali aspects of the problem etfectively;

Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1987 /32 of 26 May 1987;

Requests the Secretary-General to take steps to ensure that the Department of Public lnformation of the Secretariat includes in its publications information designed to prevent the abuse of narcotic drugs, especially by young people;

Calls upon the Govemments of countries facing problems of drug abuse, particularly those most seriously atfected, as part of their national strategy, to take the necessary measures to reduce significantly the illicit de-

mand for drugs and psychotropic substances with the aim of creating in society a deep respect for its own health, fit. ness and well-being and to provide appropriate information and advice for ali sectors of their communities with regard to drug abuse, its harmful effects and the way in which appropriate community action can be promoted;

Requests the Secretary-General to take steps to provide, within existing resources, appropriate support for strengthening the Division of Narcotic Drugs and the International Narcotics Control Board, including through redeployment;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-third session on the implementation of the present resolution and decides to inelude in the provisional agenda ofthat session the item entitled "International campaign against traffic in drugs".

123 E/CN.7/1988/2 (Part 11) and Corr.2 and Add. t.

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 Supp/ement No. 4 (E/1987/17), chap. VIII, sect. A.

No. E.87.1.18).

m A/42/594.

127 !bid., cha p. I, sect. A.

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128 See Official Records of the General Assembly. Forty-second Session, Third Committee, 36th meeting, and corrigendum.

129 Resolution 41/128, annex.

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