At the Arab level, Saudi Arabia has adopted the "Common Arab Unified Law" against the illicit use of drugs and psychotropic substances issued by the Council of Arab Ministers of Interior in 1406 H (1986) in Tunis, and signed the "Arab anti-drugs Strategy" to combat the illicit use of drugs and psychotropic substances which has been adopted by the Council of Arab Interior Ministers in 1999 in Tunis, in addition to a number of bilateral agreements with a number of Arab states and friendly countries.
At the international level, and because the cultivation, production, manufacture, trafficking and abuse of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances are universal issues, it is difficult and almost impossible for a single sate working alone to deal with or eliminate that phenomenon.
Working together of all nations worldwide would be the best way to achieve positive results regarding combating of drugs and psychotropic substances; thus the General Directorate of Narcotics Control is keen to be an operative party in all international co-operative activities and forums through the signing of memoranda of understanding and ratification of bilateral, multilateral and international agreements such as the only-one "Narcotics Control Convention " which was issued in 1961; the "Convention on Psychotropic Substances" which was issued in 1971; and the "United Nations Convention" against illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, which was signed in Vienna in 1988.
In respect with the international co-operation in the exchange of information, the General Directorate of narcotics Control co-ordinates with the narcotics control agencies in a number of countries where drugs are cultivated, produced, trades or transited. Such mutual co-ordination and co-operation produced positive results that led to the suppression of a number of smuggling attempts and detention of those smugglers.