A/RES/75/197
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 111
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/479, para. 20)]
75/197.
United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and
the Treatment of Offenders
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 73/188 of 17 December 2018 and all other relevant
resolutions,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 1
Bearing in mind that weaknesses in crime prevention lead to subsequent
difficulties at the level of crime control mechanisms, and bearing in mind also the
urgent need to establish effective crime prevention strategies for Africa, as well as the
importance of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary at the regional and
subregional levels,
Aware of the devastating impact of new and more dynamic crime trends on the
national economies of African States, such as the high levels of transnational
organized crime, including the utilization of digital technology to commit all types of
cybercrime, and aware also of illicit trafficking in cultural property, drugs, precious
metals, rhinoceros horns and ivory, of piracy and money-laundering and of the fact
that crime is a major obstacle to harmonious and sustainable development in Africa,
Deeply concerned about the growing links, in some cases, between some forms
of transnational organized crime and terrorism, and recognizing that countering
transnational organized crime and terrorism is a common and shared responsibility,
and that criminal justice procedures will have to be more cost-conscious, timely and
expeditious and sensitive to public responses to minimize or eliminate any suspicion
of compromise,
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