A/RES/73/192 International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto21 and the United Nations Convention against Corruption; 22 102. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to provide, in close collaboration with the International Narcotics Control Board, as appropriate, adequate support and technical assistance to Governments in all regions so as to enable them to implement and fully meet their obligations under conventions and give adequate follow-up to subsequent resolutions of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly, including for the strengthening of regulatory authorities and controls, provision of information and fulfilment of reporting requirements, and urges donors to contribute to the Office for those purposes; 103. Takes note of the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at its sixty-first session 5 and of the World Drug Report 2018; 104. Also takes note of Human Rights Council resolution 37/42 of 23 March 2018, 23 entitled “Contribution to the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights”; 105. Calls upon Member States to strengthen international and regional cooperation and coordination to counter the threat to the international community caused by the illicit production of and trafficking in drugs, especially those in the opioid group, as well as other aspects of the world drug problem, and to continue to take concerted measures within the framework of the Paris Pact 24 and other relevant regional and international initiatives and mechanisms, in order to strengthen cross border cooperation and information exchange, with a view to countering drug trafficking, with the support of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other international and regional organizations; 106. Urges Member States to continue to actively cooperate with the International Narcotics Control Board in the exercise of its mandate, and reiterates the need to ensure that an appropriate level of resources is made available to the Board to enable it to engage with Governments to effectively monitor compliance by States parties with the three international drug control conventions; 107. Encourages the continued contribution of the meetings of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies and of the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to the strengthening of regional and international cooperation, and in this regard welcomes the discussions conducted in Vienna from 27 to 30 June 2017, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, from 17 to 21 September 2018, Bangkok from 2 to 5 October 2018, Santiago from 22 to 26 October 2018 and Baku from 19 to 23 November 2018; 108. Welcomes the ongoing efforts to strengthen cooperation in addressing the world drug problem and to seek effectiveness and comprehensiveness in the strategies and policies undertaken by regional and subregional organizations and transregional initiatives; 109. Reiterates its call upon the relevant United Nations agencies and entities and other international organizations, and invites international financial institutions, __________________ 21 22 23 24 20/22 United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574. Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146. See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-third Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/73/53), chap. IV, sect. A. See S/2003/641, annex. 18-22288

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