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Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
strengthen national efforts to combat all forms of trafficking in persons and to protect
and assist the victims of trafficking in accordance with all relevant legal o bligations
and in collaboration with international organizations, civil society and the private
sector, and in this regard calls upon the United Office on Drugs and Crime to continue
its technical assistance to Member States in accordance with the Protocol ;
43. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to enhance its
technical assistance to Member States, upon request, to strengthen international
cooperation in preventing and combating terrorism, including the phenomenon of
travelling, returning and relocating foreign terrorist fighters, especially with regard
to extradition and mutual legal assistance, and its financial sources, through the
facilitation of the ratification and implementation of the universal conventions and
protocols related to terrorism, in close consultation and cooperation with the Security
Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1373 (2001) concerning
counter-terrorism (the Counter-Terrorism Committee) and its Executive Directorate,
as well as to contribute to the work of the Office of Counter-Terrorism, established in
accordance with resolution 71/291, and of the United Nations Global CounterTerrorism Coordination Compact entities, and invites Member States to provide the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime with appropriate resources for its mandate;
44. Urges the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
provide, within its mandate, technical assistance to Member States, upon their
request, to combat money-laundering and the financing of terrorism through the
Global Programme against Money-Laundering, Proceeds of Crime and the Financing
of Terrorism, in accordance with United Nations-related instruments and international
standards, including, where applicable, standards and relevant initiatives of regional,
interregional and multilateral organizations and intergovernmental bodies against
money-laundering, inter alia and as appropriate, the Financial Action Task Force, in
accordance with national legislation;
45. Encourages Member States to enhance the effectiveness of countering
criminal threats to the tourism sector, including terrorist threats, through, when
appropriate, the activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other
relevant international organizations, in cooperation with the World Tourism
Organization and the private sector;
46. Affirms that attacks intentionally directed against buildings dedicated to
religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, or historic monuments, or
hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are collected, may amount to war
crimes, stresses the importance of holding accountable perpetrators of attacks
intentionally directed against the above-mentioned buildings, provided that they are
not military objectives, and calls upon all States to take appropriate action to this end
within their jurisdiction in accordance with applicable international law;
47. Urges States parties to make effective use of the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime for broad cooperation in
preventing and combating all forms and aspects of trafficking in cultural property and
related offences, including money-laundering and the financing of terrorism,
especially in returning such confiscated proceeds of crime or property to their
legitimate owners, in accordance with article 14, paragraph 2, of the Convention;
48. Encourages States parties to the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime to promptly notify countries of origin when objects
that may be cultural property removed from their territory are identified, and to
exchange information and statistical data on all forms and aspects of traffick ing in
cultural property and related offences, and reaffirms in this regard the importance of
the International Guidelines for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Responses
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