Commends the Centre for International Crime Prevention of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for its work in promoting the ratification of the Convention and the Protocols thereto; requests the Centre, in its capacity as secretariat of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, to undertake all activities necessary to ensure the efficient preparation of the inaugural session of the Conference of the Parties, in 2004; also requests the Centre, within existing regular or extrabudgetary resources, in preparing to provide services to the Conference of the Parties, as mandated, to develop a guide containing elements that would be useful to States parties in meeting their reporting requirements to the Conference of the Parties and to undertake a study on the functioning of extradition and mutual legal assistance; requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide the Centre with the resources.

Adopted without vote, 77th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.