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UNCLAS STATE 062620 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: UNSC PREL SNAR AF
SUBJECT: AFGHANISTAN -- INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNSC RESOLUTION 
ON HEROIN PERCURSOR CHEMICALS 
 
¶1. The Department instructs USUN to vote in favor of and 
join in co-sponsoring the French-sponsored Security 
Council resolution on 
International Cooperation to Prevent Diversion of Chemical 
Precursors of Heroin for Illicit Use in Afghanistan, 
during the Security Council meeting on June 11, 2008. 
USUN may support the text with or without the bracketed 
language in PP 5 and 8 and OP 8, 9, and 11. 
 
¶2. Begin Draft Resolution 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/2003/7), and calling upon the Afghan 
Government, with the assistance of the international 
community, including the International Security Assistance 
Force and Operation Enduring Freedom coalition, in 
accordance with their respective designated 
responsibilities as they evolve, to continue to address 
the threat to the security and stability of Afghanistan 
posed by the Taliban, Al-Qaida, illegally armed groups, 
criminals and those involved in the narcotics trade; 
 
¶2. Recalling its resolutions 1267 (1999) 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 existing links between 
international security 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. Welcoming the ongoing efforts of the Government of 
Afghanistan in the fight against narcotic drugs and the 
efforts of neighboring countries to address the impact on 
the region of the production of illicit drugs in 
Afghanistan, including through interdiction activities, 
and encouraging the international and regional 
organizations to enhance their role in the fight against 
illicit trafficking in narcotics and precursors, 
 
¶8. Reiterating its support for the fight against illicit 
[production and] trafficking of drugs from and chemical 
precursors to Afghanistan, encouraging increased 
cooperation between Afghanistan, neighboring countries 
and countries on trafficking routes to strengthen 
anti-narcotics controls to curb the drug flow, including 
through border management cooperation, and expressing its 
support for the Paris Pact Initiative,  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; Stressing the need for Member States to take 
measures, with the support of relevant international 
actors  to combat the laundering of proceeds of criminal 
activity, corruption and illicit trafficking in narcotics 
and precursors in line with the outcome of the Moscow 
Conference, 
 
¶9. 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, 
 
¶10. Stressing the importance of a comprehensive approach 
to address the drug problem of Afghanistan, which, to be 
effective has to be integrated into the wider context of 
efforts carried out in the three areas of Security, 
Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights, and economic and 
Social Development, stressing that the development of 
alternative livelihood programs is of key importance in 
the success of the efforts in counter-narcotics in 
Afghanistan, and reiterating that extensive efforts have 
also to be made to reduce the demand of drugs globally in 
order to contribute to the sustainability of the 
elimination of illicit cultivation in Afghanistan, 
 
¶11. Expressing utmost concern at the increase of illegal 
smuggling for illicit use to and within Afghanistan of 
chemical precursors needed to produce heroin, in 
particular acetic anhydride, and also hydrochloric acid 
and acetone, linked to the high level of opium 
cultivation, production and trafficking, and noting that 
most of the opium produced in Afghanistan is now processed 
in the country, 
 
¶12. 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, and 
recognizing that action against the world drug problem is 
a common and shared responsibility requiring an integrated 
and balanced approach in full conformity with the purposes 
and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and 
international law, 
 
¶13. Acknowledging the role of the Commission on Narcotic 
Drugs of the Economic and Social Council as the central 
policy making and coordinating body within the UN system 
on international drug control issues, and welcoming its 
intention to consider the issue of precursors 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, 
 
¶14. Acknowledging the mandate and the leading role played 
by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), as an 
independent treaty body, in the implementation of the 
United Nations international drug control conventions and 
the international control of precursors, 
 
¶15. Stressing the central role played by the United 
Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in assisting 
Member States, notably by providing technical assistance, 
in the fight against illicit drugs, 
 
¶1.        Expresses utmost concern at the high level of 
opium cultivation, production and trafficking, which 
involves in particular the diversion of chemical 
precursors, and stresses once again the serious harm that 
it causes to the security, development and governance of 
Afghanistan as well as to the region and internationally, 
and to the success of the international efforts; 
 
¶2.      Calls upon all Member States to increase 
international and regional cooperation in order to counter 
the illicit production and trafficking of drugs in 
Afghanistan, including by strengthening the monitoring of 
the international trade in chemical precursors, including, 
notably, but not limited to, acetic anhydride, and to 
prevent attempts to divert the substances from licit 
international trade for illicit use in Afghanistan; 
 
¶3.      Invites all Member States, in particular 
chemical precursor producing countries, Afghanistan, 
neighboring countries, and all countries on the 
trafficking routes to increase their cooperation with the 
INCB, notably by fully complying with the provisions of 
Article 12 of the 1988 Convention, in order to eliminate 
loopholes utilized by criminal organizations to divert 
chemical precursors from licit international trade; 
 
¶4.      Urges exporting States to ensure the systematic 
notification of all exports of relevant chemical 
precursors, upon request from importing States, in 
accordance with provisions of the 1988 Convention, and 
encourages importing States to request the systematic 
notification of such exports; also urges the Governments 
that have not yet done so to register with and utilize the 
on-line system for the exchange of pre-export 
notifications 
(PEN On-line); 
 
¶5.      Calls upon 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), underlines the importance for all States 
parties to these treaties to implement them fully, and 
stresses that nothing in this resolution will impose on 
State parties new obligations with regard to these 
treaties; 
 
¶6. Expresses its continued support to the commitment and 
efforts of Afghanistan to achieve a sustained and 
significant reduction in the production and trafficking of 
narcotics with a view to complete elimination, Expresses 
also its support to the Afghan National Drug Control 
Strategy and calls 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, and Calls for additional 
international support for the priorities identified in 
that Strategy; 
 
¶7.      Calls upon all Member States, in particular 
chemical precursor producing countries, Afghanistan, 
neighboring 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, with a 
view to controlling  the final destination of such 
chemicals and (ii) specialized enforcement operations 
against the diversion of precursors, including for their 
detection and disposal in Afghanistan and the region, and 
for strengthening border controls; 
 
¶8.      Invites the international community to provide 
financial and technical assistance and support,  in 
building national capacity in the fields referred to in 
Paragraph 4, to Afghanistan and, where appropriate [and 
upon request], neighboring countries, including through 
voluntary contributions to 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, scanning, stockpiling, transportation and 
destruction of chemical precursors;  and encourages 
Afghanistan and its neighbors to make full use of such 
Assistance; 
 
¶9.      Reiterates its support for the Paris Pact 
Initiative aimed at facilitating counter narcotics 
cooperation and coordination amongst countries seriously 
affected by the trafficking of narcotics drugs produced in 
Afghanistan, for the outcome of the Second Ministerial 
Conference organized in Moscow in June 2006 (S//2006/598), 
[in cooperation with UNODC,] and for other international 
and/or regional relevant initiatives, such as Project 
Cohesion, and calls upon Paris Pact partners to further 
promote international and regional initiatives; 
 
¶10.     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, and urges the 
Paris Pact partners to cooperate closely in a view to 
achieve its successful implementation; 
 
¶11.     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 producing countries, 
Afghanistan [and its] neighbors to develop partnerships 
with the private sector so as to prevent the diversion of 
precursors; 
 
¶12.     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 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; 
 
¶13.     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, Usama 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, in order to give full effect to the 
relevant provisions of  resolution 1735 (2006); 
 
¶14.     Requests the Secretary General to include, as 
appropriate, in his regular reports to the Security 
Council and the General Assembly on the situation in 
Afghanistan, in close consultation with UNODC and INCB, 
observations and recommendations on the fight against drug 
production and trafficking, notably on the issue of the 
illicit traffic of chemical precursors to and within 
Afghanistan; 
 
¶15.     Invites the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to 
consider, in accordance with its mandate, ways to 
strengthen regional and international cooperation to 
prevent the diversion and smuggling of chemical precursors 
to and within Afghanistan, and further opportunities for 
Member States to support the Afghan Government in 
developing capacities to tackle precursors and 
trafficking; 
 
¶16.     Decides to remain seized of the matter. 
 
End Text. 
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