Welcomes recent multilateral initiatives to combat corruption including, inter alia, the Inter-American Convention against Corruption,4 adopted by the Organization of American States, the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, adopted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Dakar Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Organized Transnational Crime and Corruption,5 the Manila Declaration on the Prevention and Control of Transnational Crime,6 and the Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of member States of the European Union;
Commends the work of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the Secretariat in combating corruption and bribery in international commercial transactions, including the convening of an open-ended meeting of governmental experts;
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Calls uponMember States to take all possible measures to further the implementation of the United Nations Declaration against Corruption and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions8 and relevant international declarations and to ratify, where appropriate, existing instruments against corruption;
Requeststhe United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and other competent bodies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and agreed work programmes, to assist Member States, at their request, in implementing national programmes to strengthen accountability and transparency and in implementing relevant conventions, declarations and instruments to combat corruption and bribery in international commercial transactions, and, in that context, welcomes the valuable work done by the United Nations Development Programme in the field of governance;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General, in close consultation with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session on measures taken by Member States and competent international and regional organizations, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to implement the present resolution.
