Contribution to the strengthening of the Global Programme of Action: anti-drug strategy in the Americas

Contribution to the strengthening of the Global Programme of Action: anti-drug strategy in the Americas

Welcomes the joint efforts of States of the Americas to achieve the approval and adoption of a strategy for dealing with the drugs problem in the Americas; takes note with satisfaction of the document entitled "Anti-drug strategy in the hemisphere", approved by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States at its 20th regular session, held at Buenos Aires in Oct. 1996, and signed at Montevideo in Dec. 1996; urges the international community to take due account of the anti-drug strategy in the hemisphere as a significant contribution to the strengthening of the Global Programme of Action adopted by the General Assembly at its 17th special session.

Adopted without vote, 36th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1997, New York, 23 Jan. and 4-7 Feb. 1997; resumed organizational session for 1997, New York, 1 and 2 May 1997; substantive session of 1997, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 1997; resumed substantive session of 1997, New York, 8 Oct. and 16 and 18 Dec. 1997 - E/1997/97 - p. 104 - (ESCOR, 1997, Suppl. no. 1).