Requests the Secretary-General to forward the information-gathering instruments to Member States, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and the institutes of the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme network and other UN entities for their comments; also requests the Secretary-General to review the information-gathering instruments on the basis of the comments received; requests the Secretary-General to assist Member States, upon request, in the use and application of UN standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice; requests the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to work with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the Secretariat and other relevant entities responsible for providing assistance to countries in post-conflict situations; requests the Secretary-General to keep the development of legal, institutional and practical arrangements for international cooperation; requests the Secretary-General to convene a meeting of intergovernmental experts to design information-gathering instruments on standards and norms related to legal, institutional and practical arrangements for international cooperation, wherever feasible and standards and norms related primarily to crime prevention and victim issues.

Adopted without vote, 47th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2004, New York, 21 Jan., 4-6, 13 and 27 Feb. and 3 May 2004; resumed organizational session for 2004, New York, 4 May and 3 and 15 June 2004; substantive session of 2004, New York, 28 June-23 July 2004; resumed substantive session of 2004, New York, 16 Sept. and 5 and 11 Nov. 2004 - E/2004/99 - p. 61-63 - (ESCOR, 2004, Suppl. no. 1).