Providing Support to Afghanistan with a View to Ensuring Effective Implementation of Its Counter-Narcotics Implementation Plan

A/RES/60/179View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 107 International drug control, published in 2006.

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Afghanistan Crop Eradication Crop Monitoring Crop Substitution Drug Control Drug Demand Drug Traffic Financial Assistance International Cooperation International Drug Monitoring Narcotic Drugs Opium Poppy Precursor Chemicals Programme Implementation Technical Cooperation

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14 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the bilateral and multilateral support being provided to Afghanistan by the international community through the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other international entities;

Commends the Counter-Narcotics Implementation Plan of Afghanistan, which comprises an eight-point strategy that includes:

Building counter-narcotics institutions and provincial structures;

Increasing the awareness of the Afghan population about the problems and threats emanating from the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs;

Provision of alternative livelihoods and creation of the national development budget and the counter-narcotics trust fund to provide financial support;

Interdiction and elimination of heroin-manufacturing laboratories through the national counter-narcotics police force;

Strengthening legal and judicial institutions;

A credible, targeted and verified eradication campaign;

Demand reduction and treatment of addicts;

Regional cooperation with neighbouring countries aimed at strengthening security belts in the region and countering the threat posed by the illicit cultivation of opium poppy and the production of and trafficking in illicit narcotic drugs;

Calls upon the international community to provide the necessary support to the counter-narcotics objectives of the Government of Afghanistan, by continued technical assistance and financial commitment, in particular, to all eight pillars of the Counter-Narcotics Implementation Plan;

Encourages all stakeholders to strengthen measures for global demand reduction, thereby enhancing efforts to combat illicit drug production and trafficking;

Urges Afghanistan to maintain illicit drug control among its highest priorities, as stipulated in its Constitution and the Counter-Narcotics Implementation Plan, with a view to enhancing its efforts to combat the illicit cultivation of opium poppy, the production of illicit drugs and trafficking in illicit drugs and precursors;

Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to strengthen its efforts to ensure that multilateral support is provided to Afghanistan in line and in coordination with the Counter-Narcotics Implementation Plan.

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