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Acknowledging the competence of the United Nations in the field of drug control and desirous that the international organs concerned with drug control should be within the framework of that Organization,

Reaffirming the guiding principles of existing drug control treaties and the system of drug control which they embody,

Recognizing the need to reinforce and complement the measures provided in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, that Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, in order to counter the magnitude, extent and complexity of the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and its grave consequences,

Desiring to conclude an effective and operative international convention against the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. which considers the various aspects of the problem as a whole, in particular those not envisaged in the existing drug control treaties,

Hereby agree as follows:

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