A/RES/74/173
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 106
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/400)]
74/173.
Promoting technical assistance and capacity-building to strengthen
national measures and international cooperation to combat
cybercrime, including information-sharing
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 65/230 of 21 December 2010, in which it endorsed the
Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges: Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development in a Changing
World, adopted by the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, and requested the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice to establish, in line with paragraph 42 of that Declaration, an open-ended
intergovernmental expert group to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of
cybercrime and responses to it by Member States, the international community and
the private sector, including the exchange of information on national leg islation, best
practices, technical assistance and international cooperation, with a view to
examining options to strengthen existing and to propose new national and
international legal or other responses to cybercrime,
Recalling also its resolutions 46/152 of 18 December 1991, 60/1 of
16 September 2005, 67/1 of 24 September 2012, 69/193 and 69/196 of 18 December
2014, 70/178 of 17 December 2015, 71/209 of 19 December 2016, 72/196 of
19 December 2017 and 73/186 and 73/187 of 17 December 2018,
Recalling further its resolution 70/174 of 17 December 2015, in which it
endorsed 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,
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