Urges all Governments to continue to contribute to maintaining a balance between the licit supply of and demand for opiate raw materials used to meet medical and scientific purposes and to adhere strictly to the provisions of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs; urges Governments of consumer countries to assess their licit needs for opiate raw materials realistically and to communicate those needs to the International Narcotics Control Board in order to ensure easy supply, and calls upon all Governments of countries producing opium poppy to limit the cultivation of opium poppy; urges all Governments where opium poppy has not been cultivated to refrain in its commercial cultivation; requests the International Narcotics Control Board to continue its efforts in monitoring the implementation of the relevant ECOSOC resolutions in full compliance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 and with that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol; requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the present resolution to all Governments for consideration and implementation.

Adopted without vote, 36th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2005, New York, 19 Jan., 4 Feb. and 1 and 31 Mar. 2005; resumed organizational session for 2005, New York, 27 and 28 Apr. and 9 June 2005; substantive session of 2005, New York, 29 June-27 July 2005; resumed substantive session of 2005, New York, 21 Oct. 2005 - E/2005/99 - p. 66-68 - (ESCOR, 2005, Suppl. no. 1).