27 July 1990

37th Plenary Meeting

1990/87. United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling General Assembly resolution 44/141 of 15 December 1989, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General, in his capacity as Chairman of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, to co-ordinate at the inter-agency level the development of a United Nations system-wide action plan on drug abuse control aimed at the full implementation of all existing mandates and subsequent decisions of intergovernmental bodies throughout the United Nations system,

Noting that the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination has presented the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control to all Member States,

Noting also that the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination considered the United Nations System-wide Action Plan at the first part of its thirtieth session, held from 7 May to 11 June 1990,

Recognizing the commendable efforts of the Secretary-General in the development of the United Nations System-wide Action Plan as an instrument to facilitate co-ordination, complementarity and non-duplication in drug control activities within the United Nations system and recognizing also that further efforts are needed to improve the methodology used for its preparation and updating,

Recognizing further that the United Nations System-wide Action Plan should adequately reflect the balance achieved in the Global Programme of Action adopted by the General Assembly at its seventeenth special session,

Recalling that the Secretary-General has appointed a group of experts to advise and assist him in order to enhance the efficiency of the United Nations structure for drug abuse control, as requested in General Assembly resolution 44/141, and thus the United Nations System-wide Action Plan may need to be updated in the light of further relevant decisions that may be made by the General Assembly,

1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control;

2. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination with regard to the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Drug Abuse Control;

3. Stresses the need to revise the United Nations System-wide Action Plan in time for the forty-fifth session of the General Assembly in order to fully incorporate all the mandates and activities contained in the Global Programme of Action and to comply with the guidelines set out by the General Assembly in its resolution 44/141.