United States/Mexico Bi-National Drug Strategy
Strategy Component
Alliance Point 8: Work for the success of the United Nations
Special Session on Illicit Drugs in June 1998.
The transnational drug threat cannot be addressed by any single nation
or even by two neighboring States as committed to effective cooperation
as are Mexico and the United States. Each nation must do its utmost, and
all nations must work together. This is the intent of the 1988 UN Convention
and other UN anti-drug conventions. While the majority of nations have
now become parties to the UN Convention, few can claim to have fully implemented
its provisions.
Given the current dimensions of international drug trafficking and related
crimes, both governments will continue to promote sub-regional, regional,
hemispheric, and global cooperation to control the drug problem in all
its dimensions.
Objectives
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Encourage governments throughout the world to become parties to the 1988
UN Convention (if they are not now parties) and to implement fully its
provisions.
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Help to strengthen the international drug control and other associated
crimes cooperation regime.
Actions
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The Governments of Mexico and the United States will hold bilateral consultations
about specific objectives and concrete results of the UN General Assembly
Special Session on Illicit Drugs.
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The Governments of Mexico and the United States will develop a program
to inform the two Congresses, the media, and groups involved in drug control
about the UN General Assembly Special Session in June 1998 and its objectives.
