1. A Note on the United Nations Reference System. The necessary and sufficient means of referencing a UN document is by its symbol only. e.g. E/CN.7/2001/16, where E means ECOSOC, the parent body of the CND, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 7, its order of establishment as an organisation in the United Nations, 2001, the year of the meeting, and 16, the document number of the documents prepared for this meeting. (The editors give a number to the document in the order that it comes to them. This is not related to the agenda item.) In a similar way the letter A designates the General Assembly. This does not, however, inform the reader of what the reference is about. Therefore fuller details have been included for purposes of clarity. Referencing is by order of the authority, and within that by date. Thus all General Assembly documents are referenced by date, followed by ECOSOC, then CND. In the same way, most of the Conventions could be referred to by their Treaty Series volume and number alone, such as Treaty Series, vol. 976, No. 14152, for the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, but this again would not aid comprehension. Resolution referencing is equally obscure to the outsider but perfectly clear once explained. CND/45/5 means the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, at its 45th session and resolution number 5. Since the 45th session was in 2002 that was the year of the resolution. It still does not indicate what the resolution was about, hence the inclusion of the titles.
2. United Nations. The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol. United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 976, No. 14152.
3. United Nations. The Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971. United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 1019, No. 14956.
4. United Nations. United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988. Official Records of the United Nations Conference for the Adoption of a Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Vienna, 25 November–20 December 1988, vol. 1. United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.XI.5.
5. Charter of the United Nations. New York: United Nations, 1946.