Enhancement of the United Nations Structure for Drug Abuse Control

A/RES/45/179View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 108International action to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking, published in 1990.

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Appointment of Officials Conferences Coordination Within UN System Drug Control Drug Dependence Drug Traffic Financing Operational Activities Organizational Change Programmes of Action Recommendations Rules and Regulations Social Research Support Costs Technical Cooperation Top Echelon Staff Treaties

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Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General309 and the report of the Group of Experts, entitled “Drugs and the United Nations: meeting the challenge”;310

Welcomes the proposal of the Secretary-General to unify the United Nations structure for drug abuse control to enable the United Nations to strengthen its role as the main focus for concerted international action for drug abuse control;

Requests the Secretary-General to create a single drug control programme, to be called the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, based at Vienna, and to integrate fully therein the structures and the functions of the Division of Narcotic Drugs of the Secretariat, the secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control with the objective of enhancing

Invites the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps in order to appoint a senior official at the level of Under-Secretary-General, who will execute the integration process and head the new integrated Programme starting from 1 January 1991 with the exclusive responsibility for co-ordinating and providing effective leadership for all United Nations drug control activities, in order to ensure coherence of actions within the Programme as well as co-ordination, complementarity and non-duplication of such activities across the United Nations system;

Also invites the Secretary-General to structure the United Nations International Drug Control Programme along the following lines:

Treaty implementation, which would integrate, with due consideration to treaty arrangements, the functions of the secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board and the treaty implementation functions of the Division of Narcotic Drugs, taking into account the independent role of the Board;

Policy implementation and research, with responsibility for implementing policy decisions of the relevant legislative bodies and conducting analytical work;

Operational activities, with responsibility for coordinating and carrying out the technical co-operation projects currently being executed mainly by the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control, the Division of Narcotic Drugs and the secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board;

Endorses the proposal of the Secretary-General to place the financial resources of the existing United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control under the direct responsibility of the head of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme as a fund for financing operational activities, mainly in developing countries;

Requests the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, at its thirty-fourth regular session, to consider ways and means of improving its functioning as a policy-making body and to submit its recommendations to the Economic and Social Council at its first regular session of 1991;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit his report and that of the Group of Experts to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at its thirty-fourth regular session so that they can be taken into account when the Commission discusses ways and means of improving its functioning;

Requests the Economic and Social Council, as a matter of urgency at its first regular session of 1991, giving due consideration to the recommendations of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, to undertake a review of the functioning of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and decide on the appropriate changes needed to improve it;

Requests the Secretary-General to review the United Nations System-Wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control, as revised,143 including all mandates and recommendations established by the Global Pro-

Underlines that the United Nations International Drug Control Programme should give priority to the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Outline of Future Activities in Drug Abuse Control, as well as the mandates and recommendations in the Global Programme of Action;

Requests that the appropriation within the regular budget of the United Nations currently allocated to the secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board and the Division of Narcotic Drugs be reallocated to the United Nations International Drug Control Programme in accordance with the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation, and invites the Secretary-General to ensure that adequate financial and other resources are allocated to the Programme to enable it to discharge its functions effectively;

Decides that the operational programme and related support costs currently financed from voluntary contributions shall, upon the establishment of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, continue to be borne from voluntary contributions;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-sixth session a report on the measures taken to implement the present resolution.

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