UN General Assembly
1990

generations of young people. Our determination as a nation to fight the menace of drugs remains strong and unswerving. We have tightened law enforcement and enacted l stiffer penalties. We have benefited in a small measure from the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control (UNFDAC) in areas of law enforcement and training. We require more assistance in reducing demand through preventive education, health care and rehabilitation. There is a need for continued international co-operation to combat the cultivation and trafficking of these illicit substances, to eliminate the demand, to intensify efforts in the field of public information, health and education, and to develop programmes for rehabilitation. The drug traffickers, the narco-terrorists, must be stopped at all costs. They must no longer be allowed to terrorise the lives of our young people, threaten the security of the region, subvert our youth, rape our society and retard the future of generations. The global war against drugs must be declared during this forty-fifth session and all our Governments and peoples must enlist. Although the current tensions continue to dominate our consciousness, and