United Nations
A/RES/56/261
General Assembly
Fifty-sixth session
Agenda item 110
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/56/L.70)]
56/261. Plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna
Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges
of the Twenty-first Century
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 55/59 of 4 December 2000, in which it endorsed the
Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twentyfirst Century, adopted by the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of
Crime and the Treatment of Offenders,
Noting that, in paragraph 29 of the Vienna Declaration, the Tenth Congress
invited the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to design specific
measures for the implementation of and follow-up to the commitments undertaken
in the Declaration,
Recalling that, in its resolution 55/60 of 4 December 2000, it urged
Governments, in their efforts to prevent and combat crime, to be guided by the
results of the Tenth Congress, and requested the Secretary-General to prepare, in
consultation with Member States, draft plans of action for the implementation of and
follow-up to the commitments undertaken in the Vienna Declaration for
consideration and action by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice at its tenth session,
1. Takes note with appreciation of the plans of action for the implementation
of the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the
Twenty-first Century, 1 which are contained in the annex to the present resolution;
2. Notes with appreciation the work of the Commission on Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice at its ninth and tenth sessions on the preparation of the plans of
action for the implementation of the Vienna Declaration;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the widest possible circulation
of the plans of action;
4. Invites Governments to consider carefully and use, as appropriate, the
plans of action as a guide in their efforts to formulate legislation, policies and
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Resolution 55/59, annex.
Distr.: General
15 April 2002