Urges Member States to consider signing and ratifying the Convention as soon as possible, in order to allow its early entry into force and subsequent implementation; encourages Member States to make adequate voluntary contributions, where appropriate, to the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Fund to provide developing countries and countries with economies in transition with the technical assistance they may require to implement the Convention, including assistance for the preparatory measures required for implementation, taking into account article 62 of the Convention; requests the Secretary-General to provide the UN Office on Drugs and Crime with the resources necessary to enable it to promote, in an effective manner, the entry into force and implementation of the Convention, inter alia, through the provision of assistance to developing countries and countries with economies in transition for building capacity in the areas covered by the Convention.

Adopted without vote, 74th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 59th sess., Suppl. no. 49.