Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Calls upon Member States to strengthen their efforts to cooperate, as appropriate, at the bilateral, subregional, regional and international levels to counter effectively transnational organized crime; urges the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to continue providing technical assistance to Member States to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism through the Global Programme against Money Laundering, in accordance with UN-related instruments and internationally accepted standards, including, where applicable, recommendations of relevant intergovernmental bodies, inter alia, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, and relevant initiatives of regional, interregional and multilateral organizations against money laundering; and urges the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to increase collaboration with intergovernmental, international and regional organizations that have transnational organized crime mandates, as appropriate, in order to share best practices and to take advantage of their unique and comparative advantage.

Adopted without vote, 65th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.