International Narcotics Control Strategy Report

The US Department of State's INCSR is prepared in accordance with 489 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the FAA, 22 U.S.C. 2291). The INCSR provides the factual basis for the Presidential narcotics certification determinations for major drug-producing and/or drug-transit countries. Although the Convention does not contain a list of goals and objectives, it does set forth a number of obligations that the parties agree to undertake. Generally speaking, it requires the parties to take legal measures to outlaw and punish all forms of illicit drug production, trafficking, and drug money laundering, to control chemicals that can be used to process illicit drugs, and to cooperate in international efforts to these ends.