Implementation of comprehensive measures to counter the illicit manufacture, trafficking and abuse of amphetamine-type stimulants and their precursors

Urges Governments to take the necessary measures for effective compliance with the provisions of the international drug control treaties relating to the advertisement of drugs and to ensure rational use of medically prescribed amphetamine-type stimulants and to monitor the safety and efficacy of their long-term administration; urges concerned Governments to establish regional and subregional initiatives for the exchange of information and technical cooperation in order to promote coordinated international action in the fight against illicit demand for and supply of amphetamine-type stimulants and their precursors; urges Governments to consider applying civil, criminal and administrative sanctions to those who knowingly supply non-controlled chemicals for the illicit manufacture of amphetamine-type stimulants; urges the Executive Director of the Programme to initiate a review of the various means used by Governments to control amphetamine-type stimulants and their by-products or analogues that can be obtained by chemical modification, and that produce similar pharmacological effects; requests Governments to make every effort to verify the legitimacy of individual transactions involving precursors of amphetamine-type stimulants listed in table I and those listed in table II of the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988; also requests Governments of importing and exporting States to take steps to initiate a cooperative, rapid and effective exchange of information, with each other and with the Board, concerning stopped or cancelled shipments of such precursors, in order to alert Governments of other States that might be targeted as points of diversion.

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. 104-107 - (ESCOR, 1997, Suppl. no. 1).