Calls upon all States to take further action to promote effective cooperation at the international and regional levels in the efforts to counter the world drug problem; urges all States to ratify or accede to and implement all the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 and the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988; urges competent authorities, at the international, regional and national levels, to implement the outcome of the 20th special session; renews its commitment to further strengthening international cooperation and substantially increasing efforts to counter the world drug problem; calls upon States in which cultivation and production of illicit drug crops occur to establish or reinforce, where appropriate, national mechanisms to monitor and verify illicit crops; calls upon the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to continue mainstreaming a gender perspective into all its policies, programmes and activities; urges all States to assign priority to activities aimed at preventing drug and inhalant abuse among children and young people; reaffirms the role of the Executive Director of the UN International Drug Control Programme in coordinating and providing effective leadership for all UN drug control activities.

Adopted without vote, 88th plenary meeting

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