Promotion of International Cooperation to Combat Illicit Financial Flows in Order to Foster Sustainable Development

A/RES/71/213View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 17 Macroeconomic policy questions, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2017–2018

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/72/207

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2018	A/RES/72/207	Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows in order to foster sustainable development	1,604	39%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/213	Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows in order to foster sustainable development	761	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Crime Prevention Criminal Assets Illicit Funds Transfer International Cooperation Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the inclusion in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development³ of, inter alia, the target related to combating illicit financial flows, recalls that the Sustainable Development Goals and associated targets are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development, and in this regard looks forward to their achievement;

³Resolution 70/1.

Also welcomes the inclusion in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development⁴ of actions intended to combat illicit financial flows, and in this regard looks forward to their implementation;

⁴Resolution 69/313, annex.

Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the United Nations Convention against Corruption1 and the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto,⁵ and urges States parties to those conventions and protocols to make efforts towards their effective implementation;

⁵United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.

Calls upon the relevant organizations of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates and resources, to ensure that no one is left behind and no country is left behind in the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to give consideration, as appropriate, to illicit financial flows in the follow-up and review framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in the follow-up process of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda;

Looks forward to the inclusion, in the 2017 report of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development, of an analysis of the theme of the present resolution, pursuant to the Task Force’s mandate, and also looks forward to the deliberations of the Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, under the item entitled “Macroeconomic policy questions”, a sub-item entitled “Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit financial flows in order to foster sustainable development”, unless otherwise agreed.

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