10th UN Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to ensure, in collaboration with Member States, a wide and effective programme of public information related to the preparations for the 10th Congress; requests the Secretary-General to assist least developed countries and consider ways to assist developing countries in need to participate in the 10th Congress; requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the substantive and organizational arrangements for the 10th Congress are adequate in relation to its expected outcome and to provide the required resources for that purpose in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001; approves the documentation and the draft programme of work for the 10th Congress, as proposed by the Secretary-General; decides that the high-level segment of the 10th Congress shall be held on 14-15 Apr. 2000; decides that the 10th Congress, within the framework of the provisional agenda approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 53/110, should devote particular attention to ways and means of making operational the provisions of the UN convention against transnational organized crime; requests the 10th Congress to submit, through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Economic and Social Council, its declaration to the Millennium Assembly for consideration and action; requests the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to give priority attention at its 9th session to the conclusions and recommendations of the 10th Congress; requests the Secretary-General to appoint a Secretary-General and an Executive Secretary of the 10th Congress.

Adopted without vote, 83rd meeting

10th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders : resolution

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Adopted at the 83rd plenary meeting, 17 Dec. 1999.