Review of the functioning and programme of work of the United Nations in crime prevention and criminal justice : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Decides to establish an intergovernmental working group, which would produce a report elaborating proposals for an effective crime prevention and criminal justice programme and suggesting how that programme could most appropriately be implemented, and, accordingly, requests the President of the General Assembly, to appoint no more than 30 Member States on the basis of the principle of equitable geographical distribution to constitute the membership of the working group; invites Member States, in consultation with the Secretary-General and the Chairman of the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control, to convene an early ministerial meeting: (a) to consider the report of the intergovernmental working group ; (b) to consider the possible need for a convention or other international instrument to develop the content, structure and dynamics of that programme; requests the Secretary-General, to assess the possible implications of the programme proposed by the intergovernmental working group for the resources and organization of the Secretariat and to report thereon to the ministerial meeting and to the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control; requests the Secretary-General to take all practical measures to ensure rapid implementation of General Assembly resolutions 42/59 and 44/72 and Economic and Social Council resolutions 1986/11, 1987/53, 1989/68 and 1990/27, in so far as they relate the strengthening and upgrading of the status of the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat.

Adopted without vote, 68th meeting

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Adopted at the 68th plenary meeting, 14 Dec. 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 45th session, Volume 1, 18 September-21 December 1990. - A/45/49. - 1991. - p. 193-194. - (GAOR, 45th sess., Suppl. no. 49).