Adopts the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime annexed to the present resolution, and opens them for signature at the High-level Political Signing Conference to be held in Palermo, Italy, 12-15 Dec. 2000 in accordance with resolution 54/129; decides that, until the Conference of the Parties to the Convention established pursuant to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime decides otherwise, the account referred to in article 30 of the Convention will be operated within the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Fund, and encourages Member States to begin making adequate voluntary contributions to the above-mentioned account for the provision to developing countries and countries with economies in transition of the technical assistance that they might require for implementation of the Convention and the protocols thereto; decides also that the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime will complete its tasks arising from the elaboration of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime by holding a meeting well before the convening of the 1st session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.

Adopted without vote, 62nd plenary meeting

UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)
Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2001)

51 p.

"Annex I: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime": p. 4-31.
"Annex II: Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime": p. 31-39.
"Annex III: Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime": p. 40-51.