Committee: Special Political and Decolonization Committee

Topic B: Drug Trafficking

Signatories: Angola, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Botswana, Bulgaria, Chile,
Colombia, Czech Republic, Democratic Repuiblic of the Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Finland, Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras,
Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Liberia, Macedonia, Maldives, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar,
Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Qatar, Republic of Korea,
Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sierra Leona, Singapore, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname,
Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen.
The General Assembly,
Noting with satisfaction the annual celebration of the International Drug Enforcement
Conference, specifically its achievements regarding regional cooperation, as in Tokyo 1999,
1. Requests all states experiencing problems with cultivation of illicit crops and production
of narcotics within their borders to analyze the possibility of implementing Alternative
Development Programmes (ADPs), alongside the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime (UNODC) and regional organizations such as the Association of South East Asian
Nations (ASEAN), Organization of American States (OAS), and Central American
Integration System (SICA), taking into consideration the following phases:
a. Information stage,
b. Incentives to motivate participation,
c. Implementation of the programme;
2. Invites member states to establish regional alliances in order to carry out training seminar
on the specific matter of Alternative Development Programmes (ADPs), such as the
Seminar dictated by Japan and the UNODC in April 1998;
3. Calls upon all member states to apply the Five-Year Strategy for the Prevention of Drug
Abuse that sets a series of guidelines to combat, at a national level, illicit drug
consumption in the population;
4. Urges the creation of Regional Police Training Centers (RPTCs) in key areas such as
South America and South East Asia with periodical invitations to National police forces
of states facing narcotic production and trafficking issues within their borders, with the
help of the UNODC, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), to
capacitate officers on drug law enforcement techniques;
5. Promotes the participation of states that have successfully battled drug-related problems
in their territories in the aforementioned RPTCs, to encourage the transference of
effective practices and strengthen regional cooperation initiatives;
6. Recommends the creation of more operational centers linked with the currently existing
Information Exchange Networks, like INTERPOLs I-24/7, to carry out maritime
interdictions and other surveillance operations, such as the existing Maritime Analysis
and Operation Center (MAOC) and its Narcotics Task Force;

7. Endorses the global adoption of the Airport Communication Programme (AIRCOP),

supported by the UNODC, WCO, and INTERPOL, especially its expansion to South East
Asia;
8. Supports the current initiatives for regional maritime law enforcement seminars, cohosted by the UNODC, to improve multilateral cooperation and promote the exchange of
information and experiences, such as the Asia Pacific Training Seminar on Maritime
Drug Law Enforcement hosted by the Japanese Coast Guard regularly;
9. Urges all member states to join the existing legal mechanisms that target criminal assets
and the seizure, freezing or destruction of these, such as the Camden Assets Recovery
Interagency Network (CARIN);
10. Encourages the strengthening of the existing bilateral and multilateral regional
agreements on maritime cooperation, such as the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA),
and the creation of new agreements in the areas where drug trafficking is prevalent;
11. Reminds all member states their duty to sign and ratify the existing conventions on illicit
and their trafficking, specifically The 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the
1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, the 1988 Convention Against Illicit Traffic
in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, and the 2000 Convention Against
Transnational Organized Crime;