special session for consideration under the agenda item dealing with a global programme of action, particularly the elaboration of the master-plan approach. One speaker expressed the view that greater latitude should be left to UNFDAC in the use of allocated funds so that it might set its own priorities and plan its activities free of pressure from donor countries. 36. Several speakers considered that the role of the Commission of Narcotic Drugs as the main policy-making United Nations body on drug control should be enhanced; there was accordingly no need to create a new mechanism. To that effect, it was proposed that the membership of the Commission should be enlarged and that the Commission should hold regular annual sessions. The view was expressed that the Commission should be made responsible for monitoring progress towards full and timely implementation of the global programme of action to be adopted by the General Assembly at its special session. 37. At its 1037th meeting, the Commission decided to establish an ad hoc committee of the whole and entrusted it with the task of elaborating, for consideration in plenary, the views of the Commission on the enhancement of the role of the United Nations in the fight against illicit drugs and on other matters pertaining to the seventeenth special session of the General Assembly. It was decided that F. Cuevas Cancino, one of the Vice-Chairmen, would preside over the work of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole. 38. The Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole took as a basis for its discussion draft resolutions submitted by the Member States of the European Economic Community (E/CN.7/1990/L.2) and by Lebanon, on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the Group of 77, (E/CN.7/1990/L.4), as 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs and its role in addressing illicit drugs, as well as the global programme of action to combat the issue. The language used suggests a focus on international cooperation and policy-making, rather than a specific sector or industry.

**Category**
Health, International relations