Resolution nº 2008/26 of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. 24-07-2008

• Date: 24 July 2008
• Issuer: Economic and Social Council of the United Nation

ECOSOC Resolution 2008/26

Promoting sustainability and integrality in alternative

development as an important part of drug control

strategy in States where illicit crops are grown to

produce drugs

The Economic and Social Council

,

Bearing in mind

the provisions of the Single Convention on

Narcotic Drugs of 1961,

1

that Convention as amended by the 1972

Protocol,

2

the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971

3

and

the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic

Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988,

4

Recalling

the Political Declaration adopted by the General

Assembly at its twentieth special session,

5

in which Member States

recognized that action against the world drug problem was a common

and shared responsibility,

6

Reaffirming

the United Nations Millennium Declaration,

7

in

particular the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme

poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability,

8

Reaffirming also

its resolutions 2003/37 of 22 July 2003 and

2006/33 of 27 July 2006 and Commission on Narcotic Drugs

resolutions 45/14 of 15 March 2002

9

and 48/9 of 11 March 2005,

10

Taking into consideration

the report of the International

Narcotics Control Board for 2005

11

and the report entitled

Alternative

Development: a Global Thematic Evaluation: Final Synthesis

Report

,

12

prepared by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,

Convinced

that, in the review of the progress achieved in

meeting the goals and targets set in the Political Declaration adopted

by the General Assembly at its twentieth special session,

5

there is a

genuine need for the international community to assess the way

alternative development has been practised in the past and ensure that,

overall, the approaches to alternative development are fully

implemented,

1

United Nations,

Treaty Series

, vol. 520, No. 7515.

2

Ibid., vol. 976, No. 14152.

3

Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956.

4

Ibid., vol. 1582, No. 27627.

5

General Assembly resolution S-20/2, annex.

6

Ibid., para. 2.

7

See General Assembly resolution 55/2.

8

See, inter alia, A/56/326, annex, and A/58/323, annex.

9

See

Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2002, Supplement No.

8

and corrigenda (E/2002/28 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. I, sect. C.

10

Ibid.,

2005, Supplement No. 8

(E/2005/28/Rev.1), part one, chap. I, sect. D.

11

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2005

(United Nations

publication, Sales No. E.06.XI.2).

12

United Nations publication, Sales No. E.05.XI.13.