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UNCLAS STATE 060219 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNSC SNAR PREL AF
SUBJECT: AFGHAN HEROIN PRECURSOR CHEMICALS -- INSTRUCTION FOR 
FRENCH DRAFT RESOLUTION 
 
¶1.  The Department requests that USUN welcome the French 
draft resolution on chemical precursors of heroin in 
Afghanistan and express our appreciation to the French for 
their efforts to address this problem.  USUN should 
support the text of the draft resolution provided by the 
French, as copied in paragraph 3, with minor edits to clarify 
that the resolution deals with chemical precursors of heroin, 
not chemical precursors writ large. 
 
¶2.  USUN should refer any subsequent substantive changes 
to the Department for guidance, and recall the 
Department's initial red lines, which the French have 
already taken into account, in considering the text at the 
expert level and in the Council: 
 
-- the resolution should call on further cooperation 
within the framework of existing UN drug control 
conventions and the International Narcotics Control Board, 
as reflected in OPs 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, and 12; 
 
-- any actions by the Secretary General to appoint 
additional experts to examine the issue should be done 
within existing resources, as reflected in OP 12. 
 
-- the Afghan government should support the resolution, as 
it has indicated in its support for the current draft. 
 
¶3. Begin text: 
 
The Security Council, 
 
¶1. Recalling its previous resolutions on Afghanistan, in 
particular its resolutions 1659 (2006), 1776 (2007) and 
1806 (2008), and the Statement of its President on 17 June 
2003 (S/PRST/2003f7), 
 
¶2. Reaffirming its resolutions 1267 (1999),1373 (2001) and 
1735 (2006), and reiterating its support for international 
efforts to combat terrorism in accordance with 
international law, including the Charter of the United 
Nations, 
 
¶3. Reaffirming its strong commitment to the sovereignty, 
independence, territorial integrity and national unity of 
Afghanistan, 
 
¶4. Reaffirming its continued support for the Government 
and people of Afghanistan as they rebuild their country, 
strengthen the foundations of sustainable peace and 
constitutional democracy and assume their rightful place 
in the community of nations, 
 
¶5. Noting with concern the close connection between 
international terrorism and transnational organized crime, 
money laundering, trafficking in illicit drugs and illegal 
arms, and in this regard emphasizing the need to enhance 
coordination of efforts on national, subregional, regional 
and international levels in order to strengthen a global 
response to this serious challenge and threat to 
international security, 
 
¶6. Reiterating its concern about the security situation in 
Afghanistan, in particular the continued violent and 
terrorist activities by the Taliban, Al-Qaida, illegal 
armed groups, criminals and those involved in the 
narcotics trade, and the links between illicit drugs 
trafficking and the insurgency, 
 
¶7. Stressing once again the serious harm that the high 
level of opium cultivation, production and trafficking 
causes to the security, development and governance of 
Afghanistan as well as to the region and internationally, 
 
¶8. Recognizing the efforts of neighboring countries to 
address the impact on the region of the production of 
illicit drugs in Afghanistan, including through 
interdiction activities, 
 
¶9. Reiterating its support for the fight against illicit 
trafficking of drugs from and chemical precursors of heroin to 
Afghanistan, in neighboring countries and countries along 
trafficking routes, encouraging increased cooperation 
between those countries to strengthen anti-narcotics 
controls to curb the drug flow, including through border 
management cooperation, and expressing its support for the 
Paris Pact Initiative aimed at combating Afghan opiates 
trafficking, for the outcome of the Second Ministerial 
Conference organized in Moscow in June 2006, and for the 
meeting organized in Kabul in October 2007 in the 
framework of the Paris Pact Initiative, 
 
¶10. Expressing its support to the Afghan National Drug 
Control Strategy and calling on the Afghan Government, 
with the assistance of the international community, to 
accelerate its implementation, as discussed at the seventh 
meeting of the Joint Coordinating and Monitoring Board 
(JCMB) held in Tokyo in February 2008, 
 
¶11. Recalling that achieving a sustained and significant 
reduction in the production and trafficking of narcotics 
with a view to eliminating the narcotics industry has been 
identified as a cross-cutting priority by the "Afghanistan 
Compact" adopted in London in 2006, which provides the 
framework for the partnership between the Afghan 
Government and the international community, as well as the 
Government of Afghanistan's National Drug Control 
Strategy, 
 
¶12. Urging States that have not done so to consider 
ratifying or acceding to, and State parties to implement 
fully the multilateral treaties whose aim is to fight 
against the illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs, notably 
the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 
1961, as amended by the Protocol of 25 March 1972 and the 
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in 
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, 1988 (the 1988 
Convention), and underlining the importance for all States 
parties to these treaties to implement them fully in order 
to promote international stability, 
 
¶13. Expressing utmost concern at the increase of illegal 
smuggling to and within Afghanistan of chemical precursors 
needed to produce heroin, in particular acetic anhydride, 
noting that most of the opium produced in Afghanistan is 
now processed in the country, and stressing the need to 
better implement the system of monitoring and notification 
of the international trade in chemical precursors of heroin 
established by the 1988 Convention so as to prevent the 
diversion from licit channels to illicit traffic of 
substances, 
 
¶14. Recalling the Political Declaration adopted by the 
General Assembly at its twentieth special session, In 
which Member States decided to establish the year 2008 as 
a target date for States to eliminate or significantly 
reduce, inter alia, the diversion of precursors of heroin, 
 
¶15. Acknowledging the role of the Commission on Narcotic 
Drugs of the Economic and Social Council as the global 
coordinating body in international drug control, and 
welcoming its intention to consider the issue of 
precursors of heroin control as one of the central 
questions to be discussed during the high-level segment 
of the fifty-second session of the Commission on Narcotic 
Drugs, 
 
¶16. Acknowledging the leading role played by the 
International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in the 
implementation of the United Nations international drug 
control conventions and the international control of 
precursors of heroin, 
 
¶17. Stressing the central role played by the United 
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in assisting 
Member States in the fight against illicit drugs, 
 
¶1. Calls upon all Member States to increase international 
and regional cooperation in order to strengthen the 
monitoring of the international trade in chemical 
precursors of heroin, notably acetic anhydride, and to prevent 
attempts to divert the substances from licit international 
trade for illicit use in Afghanistan, 
 
¶2. Urges all Member States, in particular Afghanistan, 
neighboring countries, all countries on the trafficking 
routes and producing countries to increase their 
cooperation with the INCB, notably by fully complying with 
the provisions of Article 12 of the 1986 Convention, in 
order to eliminate loopholes utilized by criminal 
organizations to divert acetic anhydride and other 
precursors of heroin from licit international trade; Strongly 
encourages Member States to regularly provide the INCB 
with estimates of their domestic, legitimate requirements 
for chemical precursors of heroin, in accordance with Resolution 
49/3 from the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 
 
¶3. Urges all Member States to request, through the 
Secretary General, the systematic notification by 
exporters of all exports to their territories of chemical 
precursors of heroin, notably acetic anhydride, in accordance 
with provisions of Articfe 12, paragraph 10, of the 1988 
Convention; also urges the Governments of all importing 
and exporting countries that have not yet done so to 
register with and utilize the online system for the 
exchange of pre-export notifications (PEN Online), 
 
 
¶4. Calls upon all Member States, in particular producing 
countries, Afghanistan, neighbouring countries and all 
countries on the trafficking routes to adopt adequate 
national legislation, consistent With the requirements of 
relevant international conventions to which they are 
parties, where it has not yet been done, and to strengthen 
their national capacities in the areas of (i) regulation 
and monitoring of manufacture and trade of chemical 
precursors of heroin, with a view to controlling the final 
destination of such chemicals and (ii) specialized 
enforcement operations against the diversion of precursors 
of heroin, including for their detection and disposal in 
Afghanistan and the region, and for strengthening border 
controls; 
 
¶5. Invites the international community to provide 
technical assistance and support in building national 
capacity in the fields referred to in Paragraph 4, to 
Afghanistan and, where appropriate, neighboring countries, 
including through voluntary contributions to the INCB and 
UNODC; stresses in particular the importance of training 
and equipping law enforcement agencies, including border 
police and custom officers, so as to allow them to deal 
efficiently with such tasks as detection, stockpiling, 
transportation and destruction of chemical precursors of 
heroin; and encourages Afghanistan and its neighbors to make 
full use of such assistance, 
 
¶6. Reiterates its support for the Paris Pact Initiative 
aimed at facilitating counter narcotics cooperation and 
coordination amongst countries seriously affected by 
Afghan opiates trafficking, for the outcome of the Second 
Ministerial Conference on Drug Trafficking Routes from 
Afghanistan organized in Moscow in June 2006 
(8//2006/598), and for other international and/or regional 
relevant initiatives, such as Project Cohesion. 
 
¶7. Welcomes the launch, under the guidance of UNODC and 
the Project Cohesion Task Force, of the Targeted 
Anti-Trafficking Regional Communication, Expertise and 
Training (TARCET) initiative, targeting precursors used in 
the manufacture of heroin in Afghanistan, 
 
¶8. Recognizes the legitimate need of industry to have 
access to precursors and its important role In preventing 
the diversion of precursors, and encourages all Member 
States, in particular Afghanistan's neighbors to develop 
partnerships With the private sector so as to prevent the 
diversion of precursors of heroin, 
 
¶9. Looks forward to the outcome of the international 
conference in support of Afghanistan, which will be held 
in Paris on 12 June 2008, and encourages the participants 
to the Conference to makes concrete proposals on the ways 
to address the problem of diversion of chemical precursors of 
heroin for illicit use, in the wider framework of the 
discussions on the strengthening of counter-narcotics activities 
in the Afghanistan National Development Strategy and National 
Drug Control Strategy, 
 
¶10. Encourages Member States to submit to the Committee 
established pursuant to resolution 1267 (1999) for 
inclusion on the Consolidated List names of individuals 
and entities participating in the financing or support of 
acts or activities of Al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and the 
Taliban, and other individual, groups, undertakings and 
entities associated with them, using proceeds derived from 
the illicit cultivation, production, and trafficking of 
narcotic drugs produced in Afghanistan and their 
precursors, 
 
¶11. Requests the Secretary General to report to the 
Security Council, no later than nine months from the date 
of adoption of this resolution, on the implementation of 
this resolution and to include in his report further 
recommendations on ways to strengthen regional and 
international cooperation to prevent the diversion and 
smuggling of chemical precursors of heroin to and within 
Afghanistan, and on further opportunities for Member 
States to support the Afghan Government in developing 
capacities to tackle precursors and trafficking, 
 
¶12. Encourages the Secretary General to closely cooperate 
with UNODC, INCB in the preparation of the report 
requested in paragraph 10 of this resolution; also 
requests the Secretary General to appoint, within existing 
resources and in consultation with the aforementioned 
entities and the Security Council, a group of up to five 
independent experts mandated with providing assistance for 
the preparation of such report, 
 
¶13. Expresses its intention to monitor closely the 
implementation of this resolution and to take further 
actions which may be required to this end, 
 
¶14. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 
 
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