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International cooperation to address and counter the world drug problem
better measure and evaluate the impact of such crimes and to further enhance the
effectiveness of criminal justice responses in that regard;
87. 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 faci litate the
exchange of information on and analysis of drug trafficking trends, with a view to
increasing knowledge about the world drug problem at the national, regional and
international levels, recognizes the importance of integrating laboratories and
providing scientific support to drug control frameworks and of treating quality
analytical data as a primary source of information worldwide, and urges coordination
with other international entities, including the International Criminal Police
Organization (INTERPOL);
88. Requests all Member States to provide the fullest possible financial and
political support to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime by widening its
donor base, as appropriate, and increasing voluntary contributions, in particular
general-purpose contributions, so as to enable it to continue, expand, improve and
strengthen, within its mandates, its operational and technical cooperation activities,
including with a view to assisting Member States with the full implementation of the
Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an
Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, relevant
resolutions adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the outcome document
of the thirtieth special session of the General Assembly;
89. Expresses concern regarding the overall financial situation of the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, emphasizes the need to provide the Office with
adequate, predictable and stable resources and to ensure their cost-effective
utilization, and requests the Secretary-General to continue to report, within existing
reporting obligations, on the financial situation of the Office and to continue to ensure
that the Office has sufficient resources to carry out its mandates fully and effectively;
90. 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;
91. Encourages the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, as the principal
policymaking organ of the United Nations on matters of international drug control
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;
92. Calls upon Member States to strengthen national and international action
to address the emerging challenge of new psychoactive substances, including the ir
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;
93. 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
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