International Cooperation in the Fight Against Transnational Organized Crime Assistance to States in Capacity-Building with a View to Facilitating the Implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols Thereto

A/RES/57/168View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 100 Crime prevention and criminal justice, published in 2003.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2003

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2003	A/58/165	Promoting the ratification of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/57/168

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Capacity Building Developing Countries Economies in Transition International Instruments Organized Crime Programme Implementation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Technical Cooperation Transnational Crime

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on promoting the ratification of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto;³

³E/CN.15/2002/10.

Welcomes the fact that a number of States have already ratified the Convention and the Protocols thereto, and reiterates the importance of ensuring the speedy entry into force of those instruments in accordance with its resolutions 55/25 and 55/255;

Commends the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the Office on Drugs and Crime of the Secretariat for its work in promoting the ratification of the Convention and the Protocols thereto;

Welcomes the proposed action by the Centre, described in the report of the Secretary-General, to promote the early entry into force and implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto;

Also welcomes the financial support provided by several donors to promote the entry into force and implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, and further encourages Member States to make sufficient voluntary contributions to the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Fund for the provision of technical assistance to developing countries and countries with economies in transition for the implementation of those international legal instruments;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Centre with the resources necessary to enable it to promote, in an effective manner, the entry into force and implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report on the implementation of the present resolution in his report on the work of the Centre to be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session.

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