iii) to protect the region from being used as a conduit for drugs destined for international markets. ARTICLE 3 INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS Member States, which have not acceded to, inter alia, Nations Conventions shall do so as soon as possible: the undermentioned United (a) The 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961; (b) The 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances; and (c) The 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. ARTICLE 4 DOMESTIC LEGISLATION 1. Member States shall promulgate and adopt domestic legislation which shall satisfy the provisions of the conventions referred to in Article 3. 2. The legislation shall, inter-alia, make provision for: a) drug trafficking, money laundering, diversion of chemical precursors, conspiracy, incitement and instigation and drug abuse to be illegal; b) maximum custodian sentencing which will serve both as punishment and as a deterrent and would include provision for rehabilitation; c) the destruction of drugs seized, as appropriate; d) effective measures for dealing with the proceeds of illicit drug trafficking including the tracing, freezing and seizure, confiscation and forfeiture of the said proceeds, including instrumentalities; e) rendering of mutual assistance in respect of illicit drug trafficking, investigations, confiscation, prosecutions and measures for the proportionate sharing among concerned Member States of forfeited assets; 0 Facilitation of laws and extradition between Member States; 4