Urges all Governments to give serious consideration to ways to bring about rapid improvement in solving the problem of excess stocks of opiate raw materials held by the traditional supplier countries; requests all Governments to implement the Economic and Social Council resolutions on the demand for and supply of opiates for medical and scientific needs; encourages the International Narcotic Control Board to continue its informal discussions with the main producers of raw materials for opiates and the main importers about the supply and demand question.

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. 83-84. - Issued in ESCOR, 1992, Suppl. no. 1.