A/RES/68/197. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Year: 2013
• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/197
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/197

General Assembly Distr.: General

18 February 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 109

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2013

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/68/458)]

68/197. International cooperation against the world drug problem

The General Assembly

,

Reaffirming

the Political Declaration adopted by the General Assembly at its

twentieth special session,

1

the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug

Demand Reduction,

2

the Action Plan on International Cooperation on the

Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development,

3

the Action Plan

for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug

Demand Reduction,

4

the joint ministerial statement adopted at the ministerial

segment of the forty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

5

and the

United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development,

6

Reaffirming also

the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International

Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World

Drug Problem,

7

adopted by the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, and

calling upon States to take the measures necessary to fully implement the actions set

out therein, with a view to attaining, in a timely manner, their goals and targets,

Recalling

its resolution 53/115 of 9 December 1998, in which it urged

Governments, the relevant United Nations bodies, the specialized agencies and other

international organizations to assist and support, upon request, transit States, in

particular developing countries in need of such assistance and support, aiming at

enhancing their capacity to fight the illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and

psychotropic substances,

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1 Resolution S-20/2, annex.

2 Resolution S-20/3, annex.

3 Resolution S-20/4 E.

4 Resolution 54/132, annex.

5 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2003, Supplement No. 8 (E/2003/28/Rev.1),

chap. I, sect. C.

6 Resolution 68/196, annex.

7 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. I,

sect. C.