financial, technical and human resources so as to enable them to carry out the additional responsibilities under the Convention for the biennium 1990-1991: urged the Secretary-general to provide assistance to States, at their request, to enable them to establish the legislative and administrative measures necessary for the application of the Conventions requested him also to provide for, facilitate and encourage public information activities relating to the Convention and to disseminate the text of the Convention in the official languages of the United Nations; and requested the Secretary-General to report to the Assembly at its forty-fifth session on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 441140). Document: Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 441140). . At its forty-fourth session, f42/ the General Asssmbly, alarmed by the dramatic increase in drug abuse and illicit production and trafficking in narcotics, deeply comerned that the evolving drug problem was assuming new dimensions aad was threatening the economic, social and political structuree of affected countries, recognising that the collective reeponsibility of States for the campaign against the demand for, production of and trafficking in illicit druge requires intensified intetaational co-operation and joint action, noting with appreciation the work carried out within the United Nations in tbe field of drug abuse control, recogniaiaG the important contributions made by the International (continued) (c) (d) (e) Reports of the Fifth Committee: A/44/852 and A/44/053: Resolutions 441140 to 441142 and decision 441434; Meetings of the Third Coamitteer A/C.3/44/SR.29-34, 43, 58, 60 and 61; (fi Meeting of the Pifth Committees A/C.5/44iSR.533 (9) Plenary meeting: A/44/W.%2. I... A/45/X00 English Page 320 Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking held in 1997, and by its adoption of the Declaration and the Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Outline of Future Activities in Drug Abuse Control, as well as by the Conference of plenipotentiaries, which adopted the United Nations Convention against Illicit 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing international cooperation and efforts to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking. It mentions the United Nations Convention against Illicit Trafficking and the need for collective responsibility and international cooperation to address the issue. The text also mentions the work of the United Nations in the field of drug abuse control and the adoption of declarations and outlines to combat the problem.

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Health