A/RES/54/128 Page 4 8. Requests the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention: (a) To ensure that the ongoing revision of the manual prepared by the Secretariat on practical measures against corruption7 incorporates the recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Corruption and its Financial Channels9 and takes note of the conclusions of the first Global Forum on Fighting Corruption;8 (b) To continue to develop, in consultation with Member States, an effective global programme for providing technical assistance to fight corruption; (c) To explore ways to convince underregulated financial centres to adopt rules enabling them to trace and take action against the proceeds of organized crime and corruption, to participate actively in international cooperation aimed at preventing and controlling related forms of financial crime and, if necessary, to consider measures to protect the international financial system from the underregulated financial centres and mechanisms for the establishment of such minimum rules; (d) To report to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice no later than at its tenth session on the progress made in the implementation of the present resolution and the steps taken by Member States to combat corruption and its proceeds; 9. Requests the Secretary-General to undertake, within existing or extrabudgetary resources, technical cooperation activities to combat corruption, in consultation with Member States that may be able to provide assistance. 83rd plenary meeting 17 December1999