A/RES/58/138 Recalling further its resolution 57/170 of 18 December 2002 on the follow-up to the plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century, 1 Stressing the importance of undertaking all the preparatory activities for the Eleventh Congress in a timely and concerted manner, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 2 1. Notes the progress made thus far in the preparations for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice; 2. Decides to hold the Eleventh Congress from 18 to 25 April 2005, with pre-congress consultations to be held on 18 April 2005; 3. Also decides that the high-level segment of the Eleventh Congress shall be held during the last three days of the Congress in order to allow heads of State or Government or government ministers to focus on the main substantive agenda items of the Congress; Approves the following provisional agenda for the Eleventh Congress, 4. finalized by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twelfth session: 1. Opening of the Congress. 2. Organizational matters. 3. Effective measures to combat transnational organized crime. 4. International cooperation against terrorism and links between terrorism and other criminal activities in the context of the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 5. Corruption: threats and trends in the twenty-first century. 6. Economic and development. 7. Making standards work: fifty years of standard-setting in crime prevention and criminal justice. 8. Adoption of the report of the Congress; financial crimes: challenges to sustainable 5. Decides that the following issues shall be considered by workshops within the framework of the Eleventh Congress: (a) Enhancing extradition measures; (b) international law enforcement cooperation, including Enhancing criminal justice reform, including restorative justice; (c) Strategies and best practices for crime prevention, in particular in relation to urban crime and youth at risk; (d) Measures to combat terrorism, international conventions and protocols; _______________ 1 2 2 Resolution 56/261, annex. A/58/87-E/2003/82. with reference to the relevant