Review of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme :#strengthening the United Nations machinery for international drug control within the scope of the existing international drug control treaties and in accordance with the basic principles of the Charter of the United Nations

Decides that the normative functions of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs should be made distinct from its role as governing body of the UN International Drug Control Programme; decides that the Commission should, at the end of its session, elect its bureau for the subsequent session and encourage it to play an active role in the preparations of the regular as well as the informal inter-sessional meetings of the Commission; invites the Secretary-General to provide the International Narcotics Control Board with resources commensurate with its mandates emanating from the international drug control treaties and from the 20th special session of the General Assembly; recommends that a sufficient share of the regular budget of the UN be allocated to the UN International Drug Control Programme to enable it to fulfil its mandates; requests the Executive Director to continue his efforts to broaden the donor base and increase voluntary contributions to the Fund of the UN International Drug Control Programme; requests the Secretary-General and the Executive Director to explore innovative means of increasing the resources for drug control programmes, including the creation of a global drug facility; requests the Executive Director to continue his efforts to forge closer cooperation with regional and international financial institutions engaged in the field of development.

Adopted without vote, 43rd plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1999, New York, 20 Jan. and 2-5 Feb. 1999; resumed organizational session for 1999, New York, 25 March, 6 and 7 May and 23 June 1999; substantive session of 1999, Geneva, 5-30 July 1999; resumed substantive session of 1999, New York, 16 Sept., 26 Oct., 15 Nov. and 16 Dec. 1999 - E/1999/99 - p. 60-62 - (ESCOR, 1999, Suppl. no. 1).