Strengthening the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity

Reaffirms the importance of the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme in promoting effective action to strengthen international cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice and the role of the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention of the Secretariat in providing to Member States, upon request, technical cooperation, advisory services and other forms of assistance; notes the programme of work of the Centre, including the launching of three global programmes addressing, respectively, trafficking in human beings, corruption and organized crime; supports the high priority given to technical cooperation and advisory services; urges States and funding agencies to review, as appropriate, their funding policies for development assistance and to include a crime prevention and criminal justice component in such assistance; requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures to assist the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, as the principal policy-making body in this field, in performing its activities; reaffirms the high priority attached to the elaboration of a comprehensive convention against transnational organized crime and additional international instruments.

Adopted without vote, 83rd meeting

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