A/RES/71/209
United Nations
Distr.: General
13 February 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/485)]
71/209. Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention
and criminal justice programme, in particular
its technical cooperation capacity
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 46/152 of 18 December 1991, 60/1 of 16 September
2005, 67/1 of 19 September 2012, 69/193 and 69/196 of 18 December 2014, 69/281
of 28 May 2015, 70/1 of 25 September 2015, 70/76 of 9 December 2015, 70/120 of
14 December 2015, 70/174, 70/175, 70/178 and 70/182 of 17 December 2015,
70/291 of 1 July 2016, 70/299 of 29 July 2016 and 70/301 of 9 September 2016,
Reaffirming also its resolutions relating to the urgent need to strengthen
international cooperation and technical assistance in promoting and facilitating the
ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, 1 the Single Convention on
Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, 2 the Convention on
Psychotropic Substances of 1971, 3 the United Nations Convention against Illicit
Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 19 88, 4 the United Nations
Convention against Corruption 5 and all the international conventions and protocols
against terrorism,
Welcoming Economic and Social Council resolution 2016/16 of 26 July 2016
on follow-up to the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice and preparations for the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, and recalling the importance of the Doha
Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice into the Wider
United Nations Agenda to Address Social and Economic Challenges and to Promote
the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, and Public Participation,
adopted by the Thirteenth Congress, 6
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 976, No. 14152.
3
Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956.
4
Ibid., vol. 1582, No. 27627.
5
Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146.
6
Resolution 70/174, annex.
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