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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem
89. Invites the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in close
cooperation with Member States, to reflect on possibilities for strength ening and
streamlining its existing data-collection and analysis tools, including improving and
strengthening the quality, response rate and effectiveness of the annual report
questionnaire, and to report to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on possible way s
to enhance these, for consideration by the Commission at its sixty -second session,
and invites Member States to provide extrabudgetary resources for these purposes;
90. Recalls Statistical Commission decision 48/110 of 10 March 2017 on
statistics on drugs and drug use, 20 encourages collaboration between the Statistical
Commission and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, within their mandates, to
exchange information on the latest data trends on the world drug problem, stresses
the need for national statistical capacity-building to support Member States in
improving the quality and availability of drug statistics and to respond effectively to
data-collection requests from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and
invites international and regional organizations to support Member States in this
regard, upon their request;
91. Invites Member States to invest, where necessary and taking into account
specific needs and available resources, in capacity-building and quality-enhancing
activities for the collection and reporting of information, to participate in joint
cooperation efforts organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and
by other national, regional or international organizations and bodies, aimed at the
exchange of technical knowledge of experts in the area of data collection, analysis
and evaluation and of practical experience in the area of drug data, and to regularly
report data and information relating to all aspects of the world drug problem to the
Office through the annual report questionnaires, and invites the Commission on
Narcotic Drugs, as the central policymaking body of the United Nations system on
drug-related matters, to strengthen the capacity of the Office to collect, analyse, use
and disseminate accurate, reliable, objective and comparable data and to reflect such
information in the World Drug Report;
92. Encourages Member States to promote data collection, research and the
sharing of information, as well as the exchange of best practices on preventing and
countering drug-related crime and on drug supply reduction measures and practices,
in order to enhance the effectiveness of criminal justice responses, within the
framework of applicable law;
93. Invites Member States to consider the need to review the set of national
drug policy metrics and tools for the collection and analysis of accurate, reliable,
disaggregated, comprehensive and comparable data to measure the effectiveness of
programmes to address all relevant aspects of the world drug problem, including, as
appropriate, as related to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
94. Reiterates the commitment of Member States to improve the availability
and quality of statistical information and analysis of illicit drug cultivation,
production and manufacturing, drug trafficking, money-laundering and illicit
financial flows, including for appropriate reflection in reports of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Narcotics Control Board, in order to
better measure and evaluate the impact of such crimes and to further enhance the
effectiveness of criminal justice responses in that regard;
95. Encourages the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue its
efforts to support States in establishing, upon request, the operational frameworks
essential for communication within and across national borders and to facilitate the
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