Implementation of the United Nations System-Wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control and the Global Programme of Action [on International Cooperation] Against Illicit Production, Supply, Demand, Trafficking and Distribution of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Action by Agencies of United Nations System

A/RES/47/100View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95 Narcotic drugs, published in 1993.

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14 subjects

Coordination Within UN System Drug Control Drug Demand Drug Dependence Drug Production Drug Traffic Economic Stabilization International Financial Institutions Narcotic Drugs Programme Evaluation Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Psychotropic Substances Recommendations

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9 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the commitment expressed in the Global Programme of Action and the Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Outline of Future Activities in Drug Abuse Control, and calls upon States to take all possible steps to promote and implement, individually and in cooperation with other States, the mandates and recommendations contained in the Global Programme of Action, with a view to translating the Programme into practical action to the widest possible extent at the national, regional and international levels;

1/ E/1990/39 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.l.

l/ Resolution S-17/2, annex.

l/ See Report of the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit trafficking, Vienna, 17-26 June 1987 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.I.18), chap. I, sect. B.

!/ Ibid., sect. A.

~/ A/45/262, annex.

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Calls upon all relevant United Nations agencies, particularly those associated with the United Nations System-Wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control, to establish agency-specific implementation plans to incorporate

fully into their programmes all the mandates and activities contained in the System-Wide Action Plan, and to submit a report to the Secretary-General by 1 March 1993 on progress made in establishing such agency-specific plans, for inclusion in an annex to the System-Wide Action Plan;

Calls upon the governing bodies of all United Nations agencies associated with the System-Wide Action Plan to facilitate its implementation by designating an agenda item under which the Action Plan may be considered at their next regular meeting;

Reaffirms the role of the Executive Director of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme to coordinate and provide effective leadership for all United Nations drug control activities, in order to ensure coherence of actions within the Programme as weli as coordination, complementarity and non-duplication of such activities across the United Nations system;

Requests the Administrative Committee on Coordination to give due attention in its work to the coordination of drug control activities and, under the direction of the Executive Director of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, to update the System-Wide Action Plan for the consideration of the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1993 and of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session,

keeping in mind the need to revise and update the Action Plan as necessary, inter alia, by:

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The addition of an annex containing agency-specific implementing plans, as noted in paragraph 2 above;

The inclusion of a reference to the important role of the international financial institutions, as noted in chapter II of the Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Outline of Future Activities in Drug Abuse Control, and the ability of such institutions to promote economic stability and undermine the drug industry;

Also requests the Administrative Committee on Coordination to review and update, as necessary, the System-Wide Action Plan on a biennial basis, taking into account the need to simplify and streamline its presentation;

Requests the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and in particular the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, to promote and continuously monitor the implementation of the Global Programme of Action, giving special attention to the System-Wide Action Plan;

Requests the Secretary-General to report annually to the General Assembly on activities undertaken by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme and Governments relating to the implementation of the Global Programme of Action.

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