Drug control and related crime prevention assistance for countries emerging from conflict

Requests the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to consider specific strategies to assist countries emerging from conflicts in their drug control and related crime prevention efforts; calls upon the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to facilitate the mainstreaming of drug control programmes in the development efforts of countries emerging from conflict; urges Member States emerging from conflict to give adequate priority to addressing the drug problem and related crime in their post-conflict reconstruction efforts and to increase, where relevant, their bilateral assistance in drug control and related crime prevention to those countries; requests the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to report to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, at its 48th session, on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution.

Adopted without vote, 47th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2004, New York, 21 Jan., 4-6, 13 and 27 Feb. and 3 May 2004; resumed organizational session for 2004, New York, 4 May and 3 and 15 June 2004; substantive session of 2004, New York, 28 June-23 July 2004; resumed substantive session of 2004, New York, 16 Sept. and 5 and 11 Nov. 2004 - E/2004/99 - p. 74-75 - (ESCOR, 2004, Suppl. no. 1).