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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem
utilization, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to report, within existing
reporting obligations, on the financial situation of the Office and to continu e to ensure
that the Office has sufficient resources to carry out its mandates fully and effectively;
83. Encourages Member States and the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime to continue to address the above-mentioned issues within the mandate of the
standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the
governance and financial situation of the Office in order for the Office to fulfil its
mandate effectively, efficiently and with the appropriate resources;
84. Encourages the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, as the principal
policymaking organ of the United Nations on matters of international drug contro l
and as the governing body of the drug programme of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime, and the International Narcotics Control Board to strengthen their
useful work on the control of precursors and other chemicals used in the illicit
manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances;
85. Calls upon Member States to resolve to strengthen national and
international action to address the emerging challenge of new psychoactive
substances, including their adverse health consequences, and the evolving threat of
amphetamine-type stimulants, including methamphetamine, underscores the
importance of enhancing information-sharing and early warning networks,
developing appropriate national legislative, prevention and treatment models and
supporting scientific evidence-based review and scheduling of the most prevalent,
persistent and harmful substances, and notes the importance of preventing the
diversion and misuse of pharmaceuticals containing narcotic drugs and psychotropic
substances and precursors while ensuring their availability for legitimate purposes;
86. Urges States that have not done so to consider ratifying or acceding to,
and States parties to implement, as a matter of priority, all the provisions of the
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, 6
the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, 7 the United Nations
Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of
1988, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and
the Protocols thereto 21 and the United Nations Convention against Corruption; 22
87. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
provide, in close collaboration with the International Narcotics Control Board, as
may be appropriate, adequate support and technical assistance to G overnments 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;
88. Takes note of the resolutions adopted by the Commission on Narcotic
Drugs at its fifty-ninth session 5 and the World Drug Report 2016;
89. 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
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Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146.