A/RES/70/174
United Nations
Distr.: General
8 January 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/490)]
70/174. Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice
The General Assembly,
Emphasizing the responsibility assumed by the United Nations in the field of
crime prevention and criminal justice in pursuance of Economic and Social Council
resolution 155 C (VII) of 13 August 1948 and General Assembly resolution 415 (V)
of 1 December 1950,
Acknowledging that the United Nations congresses on crime prevention and
criminal justice, as major intergovernmental forums, have influenced national
policies and practices and promoted international cooperation in that field by
facilitating the exchange of views and experience, mobilizing public opinion and
recommending policy options at the national, regional and international levels,
Recalling its resolution 46/152 of 18 December 1991, in the annex to which
Member States affirmed that the United Nations congresses on crime prevention and
criminal justice should be held every five years and should provide a forum for,
inter alia, the exchange of views between States, intergovernmental and
non-governmental organizations and individual experts representing various
professions and disciplines, the exchange of experiences in research, law and policy
development, and the identification of emerging trends and issues in crime
prevention and criminal justice,
Recalling also its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields, in which it
stressed that all countries should promote policies consistent and coherent with the
commitments of the major United Nations conferences and summits, emphasized
that the United Nations system had an important responsibility to assist
Governments to stay fully engaged in the follow-up to and implementation of
agreements and commitments reached at the major United Nations conferences and
summits and invited the intergovernmental bodies of the United Nations system to
further promote the implementation of the outcomes of the major United Nations
conferences and summits,
Recalling further its resolution 69/191 of 18 December 2014, in which it
requested the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to give high
priority at its twenty-fourth session to considering the declaration of the Thirteenth
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