Measures to prevent the diversion of precursor and essential chemicals to the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

Invites the Secretary-General to develop suitable model texts for the implementation of articles 3 and 12 of the 1988 Convention; invites all chemical-manufacturing States to monitor routinely the export trade in precursor and essential chemicals in a way that will enable them to identify changes in export patterns that suggest the diversion of such chemicals into illicit channels; invites States in which precursor and essential chemicals are manufactured and States in regions in which narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances are illicitly manufactured to establish close cooperation in order to prevent the diversion of precursor and essential chemicals into illicit channels; urges States that export chemicals essential to the illicit production of heroin and cocaine, to establish suitable mechanisms to detect and prevent their diversion and illicit trafficking; recommends that States should strengthen law enforcement cooperation by applying the technique of controlled delivery at the international level; invites Member States to consider how to fund the production and distribution of the field testing kit developed b the Laboratory of the UN International Drug Control Programme.

Adopted without vote, 41st meeting

Adopted at the 41st plenary meeting, 30 July 1992.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session of 1992, New York, 29 June-31 July and 18 August 1992. - E/1992/INF/7. - 27 Aug. 1992. - p. 80-83. - Issued in ESCOR, 1992, Suppl. no. 1.