the illicit narcotics epidemic currently afflicting the United States represents a direct threat to the well-being of every United States citizen;

every effective means must be pursued to reduce the foreign production and subsequent importation into the United States of illicit narcotics;

the multilateral development banks can play an integral role in efforts to control the production of illicit narcotics;

producer country narcotics eradication programs will not be effective unless such programs provide an economic alternative to the production of narcotics;

efforts to address the illicit narcotics epidemic through production control are doomed to failure unless greater effort is applied to curb use of and demand for illicit narcotics; and

the appropriate role for the multilateral development banks in the “War Against Drugs” is through coordinating and financing alternative economic opportunities in producer and trafficking countries.