Committee: Special Political and Decolonization Committee

Topic B: Drug Trafficking

Signatories: Angola, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bhutan, Botswana, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland,
Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia,
Liberia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Maldives, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar,
Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic
of Korea, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Sierra Leona, Singapore, South Sudan, Spain, Sri
Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, 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,
Conscious of the fact that drug trafficking remains one of the greatest substantial threats to
local communities, international peace and global security,
Alarmed by the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by drug related violence and activities,
Concerned with the millions of dollars exchanged every year in drug related money laundry,
Deeply convinced that the education of both adults and children of the dangers of drug use will
help decrease the number of individuals that are addicted to such drugs,
Noting the need for an international intelligence database for the purpose of combating drug
cartels and smugglers,
Convinced that a humanistic approach is necessary to end drug addictions,
Declaring the use of racial discrimination in targeting drug traffickers and smugglers a violation
of human rights
1. 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;
2. Recommends all member states to apply Japans already existing 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;

3. 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;
4. 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 already existing Asia Pacific
Training Seminar on Maritime Drug Law Enforcement hosted by the Japanese
Coast Guard regularly;
5. 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;
6. 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;
7. Recommends the creation of 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;
8. Endorses the global adoption of the already existing Airport Communication
Programme (AIRCOP), supported by the UNODC, WCO, and INTERPOL,
especially its expansion to South East Asia;
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. 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;
11. Encourages the regional sub-commission of UNODC to create partnerships with the
private transportation sector that provides the employees of the transportation

corporations training so as to be able to identify the latest techniques used by smugglers

within the region and assist in the seizure of narcotics attempting to be trafficked;
12. Further requests an Apprenticeship Program that can be developed by recruiting local
businesses in all member states that represent a multitude of different skills and jobs
prevalent in said countries with following details:
a. The business will work as a mentor for former or current drug users to help
facilitate a complete break from drugs,
b. The program will have the designated mentors to teach these people job skills so
they will not fall prey to drugs again,
c. Many drug users start using because they have no hope for advancement or
progress as well as lack control, and the program will provide former or current
users with job and life skills to become a part of the countrys economy,
d. The people can use the skill they learned as an apprentice to enter the work force,
e. After successfully completing the apprenticeship program and learning their skill,
the people who successfully complete the program and become part of the local
business, they can become mentors to help others like they used to be;
13. Recommends to strengthen Public Private Partnerships within member states in order to
combat the current drug situation in the world;
14. Suggests the creation of the Regional Market Initiative (RMI) to increment legal crops
demands within the region by, but not limited to:
a. Requesting BRAC Agriculture and Security Program, and its internet based
funds,
b. Working with the technical support provided by the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO),
c. Calling on the World Food Program to impulse licit crop market within regions
throughout the world within their already existing purchases order to increase
member states emerging pomegranate market possibilities and create new
lucrative crop opportunities;
15. Strongly suggests that all member states under their legal jurisdiction, encourage opium
poppy farmers to substitute their plantations with pomegranate, through the establishment
of the Switch Incentive Program (SIP) programs involving, but not limited to:
a. Tax reduction during the transition between opium and pomegranate production,
b. Indulgence from opium and poppy growing crimes within each countrys legal
boundaries,
c. The UNDP, FAO, and pomegranate industries will supply farmers with seeds and
methods to develop their own production of pomegranate;
16. Calls upon the substitution of the opium poppy cultivation with the implementation of the
pomegranate production, through the Pomegranate Emerging Market Program (PEMP)
which consists in:

a. Adopting the guidelines of institutions such as, by CIHEAM, the International

Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, and the BRAC
Agriculture and Security Program, and its internet based funds,
b. Working with the technical support provided by the Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) in charge of:
i. Improving agricultural pomegranate productivity, rural infrastructure with
access to social services and social protection, and facilitating the
development of rural producers,
ii. Increasing source use efficiency, to achieve higher productivity, while
reducing contra productive effects,
iii. Improving agricultural comprehensiveness by linking smallholder farmers
with farming enterprises and supply chains for their effective and
sustainable participation in rapidly emerging pomegranate changing
national, local, and international markets,
c. Calling on the World Food Program to impulse within their already existing
purchase of pomegranate in order to increase member states emerging
pomegranate market possibilities and create new lucrative crop opportunities,
d. Requesting the Purchase for Progress program (P4P) to involve the industrial
pomegranate production within their already existing actions to support the
agricultural and the market development in developing countries,
e. Asking the P4P to support transition pomegranate farmers to grow more, sell
more, and become more competitive players in their local markets,
f. Further noting BRAC development organization and its efforts towards the
cultivation of pomegranates, specifically in sectors such as providing farmers with
micro-loan opportunities, are encouraged to provide pomegranate seeds for
cultivation;
17. Further suggests the creation of education programs on generating conscience in the

people that they can get same profit from a licit crop as with an illicit crop, through
incentives and attitudinal changes.