The Commission on Narcotic Drugs was established by ECOSOC resolution 9(I), with Canadian Charles Henry Ludovic Sharman as its first chair. The mandate of the CND was to assist ECOSOC in supervising the application of international conventions and agreements dealing with narcotic drugs.[2] By General Assembly resolution A/RES/46/104, the CND was additionally assigned the role of the governing body of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme, which is administered by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.[3]