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 Repuiblic of the Congo,
Djibouti, Domenican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland,
Georgia, Ghana, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See, Honduras, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia,
Liberia, Lituania, 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,
Recalling Resolutions A/RES/65/323, which notes the importance of the United Nations Office
of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and its regional offices to build capacity at the local level by
promoting preventative measures towards illicit drug consumption,
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 drug0related 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 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 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 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. Further recommends that the UNODC creates the Program for Aligning Regional and
Transnational Narcotics Enforcement Regulations (PARTNER) with priority given to
upholding social, cultural and human rights, that includes:
a. Encouraging Member States to create national initiatives modeled after the
Finnish National Drug Policy Coordination Group (NDPCG) which:
i. Provides an example of how politicians and law enforcement officials can
become involved in drug regulation and policy creation;
ii. Encourages greater transparency throughout Member States specifically in
disseminating methods and techniques used to combat drug trafficking as
well as its effects;
b. Modifying the distribution of the current six UNODC regional blocks to now
include ten regional task forces in: North America, Central America and the
Caribbean, South America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, SubSaharan and
Southern Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia,
and Oceania, with the goals of;
i. Promoting technical assistance and intelligence sharing at regional,
national, and local levels to effectively disseminate best practices;
ii. Creating and utilizing an index of law enforcement, scientific, medical and
educational specialists as deemed appropriate by the UNODC, who will
populate the ten regional taskforces;
iii. Creating a process for regions to establish criteria and priorities of issues
which Member States wish to address;
iv. Calls for the allocation of funds to be administered by the UN
v. Development Programme Multiple Partnership Trust Fund with an
adequate amount of funding given based on a region-specific evaluation
by the UNODC;
c. Providing funding for implementation for these task forces be acquired jointly
from voluntary Member State donations, as well as International Governmental
Organizations (IGOs);
15. 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, to,

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;
16. Strongly suggests that all member states under their legal jurisdiction, encourage opium
poppy farmers to substitute their plantations with Industrial Hemp, through the
establishment of the Switch Incentive Program (SIP) program including, but not limited
to:
a. Tax reduction during the transition between opium and industrial hemp
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;
17. 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 hemp 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
minimizing negative externalities,
iii. Improving agricultural inclusiveness by linking smallholder farmers with
agribusiness enterprises and supply chains for their effective and
sustainable participation in rapidly emerging pomegranate changing
global, regional and national 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 Industrial Hemp seeds for
cultivation,
18. 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;
19. Recommends Member States to cooperate on a regional and international level to combat
drug related money laundering, by:
a. Working with the Middle East and North Africa Financial Action Task Force
(MENAFATF),
b. Utilizing the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes Global Programme
against Money Laundering (GPML) Mentor Program to train relevant personnel
on recognizing the indicators of money laundering,