The Secretary-General was requested by the General Assembly in its resolution 45/179 of 21 December 1990 to create a single drug control programme, to be called the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, based at Vienna, and to integrate fully therein the structures and the functions of the Division of Narcotic Drugs of the Secretariat, the secretariat of the International Narcotics Control Board and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control with the objective of enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of the United Nations structure for drug control in keeping with the functions and mandates of the United Nations in that field.
(1) اعتُمد في الجزء الرفيع المستوى من مؤتمر الأمم المتحدة الحادي عشر لمنع الجريمة والعدالة الجنائية، المعقود في بانكوك من 18 إلى 25 نيسان/أبريل 2005 (A/CONF.203/18، الفصل الأول، القرار 1).