A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/120 7 March 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 158 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Third Committee (A/51/620 and Corr.1)] 51/120. Question of the elaboration of an international convention against organized transnational crime The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 49/159 of 23 December 1994, in which it approved the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime,1 and bearing in mind the report of the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders,2 held at Cairo from 29 April to 8 May 1995, Taking into account Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/27 of 24 July 1996, entitled "Implementation of the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime", in which the Council decided, inter alia, that the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice should establish an in-sessional open-ended working group at its sixth session, for the purpose, inter alia, of considering the possibility of elaborating a convention or conventions against organized transnational crime and identifying elements that could be included therein, Recalling also the Buenos Aires Declaration on Prevention and Control of Organized Transnational Crime,3 adopted by the Regional Ministerial Workshop on Follow-up to the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against Organized Transnational Crime, held at Buenos Aires from 27 to 30 November 1995, 1 See A/49/748, annex, sect. I, A. 2 A/CONF.169/16. 3 E/CN.15/1996/2/Add.1, annex. 97-77179 /...