A/RES/68/196 United Nations Distr.: General 11 February 2014 General Assembly Sixty-eighth session Agenda item 109 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/458)] 68/196. United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development The General Assembly, Reaffirming that the world drug problem must be addressed in accordance with the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, 1 the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 2 and the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988, 3 which constitute the framework of the international drug control system, Bearing in mind the content of article 14 of the 1988 Convention, regarding measures to eradicate illicit cultivation of narcotic plants and cooperation to increase the effectiveness of those efforts, Fully aware that the world drug problem remains a common and shared responsibility that requires effective and increased international cooperation and demands an integrated, multidisciplinary, mutually reinforcing and balanced approach to supply and demand reduction strategies, Reaffirming the Political Declaration adopted by the General Assembly at its twentieth special session 4 and the Action Plan on International Cooperation on the Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development, 5 and stressing the commitment contained in the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, 6 adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at the _______________ 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 976, No. 14152. Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956. 3 Ibid., vol. 1582, No. 27627. 4 Resolution S-20/2, annex. 5 Resolution S-20/4 E. 6 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. I, sect. C. 2 13-45121 *1345121* Please recycle