Action Against Corruption

A/RES/54/128View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 107 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1997–2000

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2000	A/RES/54/128	Action against corruption	1,165	9%Compare
1997	A/RES/51/59	Action against corruption	1,258	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Bribery Corruption International Commercial Transactions International Instruments Laundering of Funds Organized Crime Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Transnational Crime

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21 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of, and subscribes to the conclusions and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Corruption and its Financial Channels, held in Paris from 30 March to 1 April 1999, which are contained in the report of the Expert Group Meeting;¹⁰

¹⁰E/CN.15/1999/10, paras. 1–14.

Also takes note with appreciation of the Declaration made by the first Global Forum on Fighting Corruption, held in Washington, D.C., from 24 to 26 February 1999,¹¹ and notes that the second Global Forum is to be held in the Netherlands in 2000 as a follow-up to the first Global Forum;

¹¹E/CN./15/1999/WP.1/Add.1.

Invites Member States to examine, at the national level, as appropriate, taking into account the above-mentioned documents, the adequacy of their domestic legal regimes in terms of guarding against corruption and providing for forfeiture of the proceeds of corruption, drawing upon international assistance available for that purpose, with a view, where necessary:

To strengthening national laws and regulations in order to criminalize corruption in all its forms, amending provisions against money-laundering so that they cover bribes and the proceeds of corruption, as well as provisions concerning the prevention and detection of acts of corruption and money-laundering;

To improving the transparency, vigilance and monitoring of financial transactions and limiting bank and professional secrecy in cases involving criminal investigation;

To promoting both inter-agency coordination and international administrative and judicial cooperation in matters involving corruption;

To enacting legislation and establishing programmes promoting the full involvement of civil society in efforts to fight corruption;

To providing, in accordance with relevant international instruments and domestic legislation, for the possibility of providing extradition and mutual assistance in cases involving corruption or money-laundering;

Stresses the need to develop a global strategy to strengthen international cooperation aimed at the prevention and punishment of corruption, including the links of corruption with organized crime and money-laundering, by:

Encouraging Member States to become parties to and to implement the terms of relevant international conventions and other instruments aimed at fighting corruption;

Inviting Member States to participate in conferences and other forums for the advancement of international efforts against corruption;

Also inviting Member States to explore the possibilities of developing a global system for peer review regarding the adequacy of practices aimed at combating corruption;

Directs the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to incorporate into the draft Convention measures against corruption linked to organized crime, including provisions regarding the sanctioning of acts of corruption involving public officials;

Requests the Ad Hoc Committee, using such time as its schedule permits and with extrabudgetary resources provided for that purpose, to explore the desirability of an international instrument against corruption, either ancillary to or independent of the Convention, to be developed after the finalization of the Convention and the three additional instruments referred to in General Assembly resolution 53/111, and to present its views to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice;

Invites Member States to keep the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention of the Secretariat informed of progress made in the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Corruption and its Financial Channels;

Requests the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention:

To ensure that the ongoing revision of the manual prepared by the Secretariat on practical measures against corruption7 incorporates the recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Corruption and its Financial Channels9 and takes note of the conclusions of the first Global Forum on Fighting Corruption;8

To continue to develop, in consultation with Member States, an effective global programme for providing technical assistance to fight corruption;

To explore ways to convince underregulated financial centres to adopt rules enabling them to trace and take action against the proceeds of organized crime and corruption, to participate actively in international cooperation aimed at preventing and controlling related forms of financial crime and, if necessary, to consider measures to protect the international financial system from the underregulated financial centres and mechanisms for the establishment of such minimum rules;

To report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice no later than at its tenth session on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution and the steps taken by Member States to combat corruption and its proceeds;

Requests the Secretary-General to undertake, within existing or extrabudgetary resources, technical cooperation activities to combat corruption, in consultation with Member States that may be able to provide assistance.

17 December1999

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