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15. We also commit ourselves to the enhancement of international
cooperation and mutual legal assistance to curb illicit manufacturing of and
trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, and we
establish 2005 as the target year for achieving a significant decrease in their
incidence worldwide.
16. We further commit ourselves to taking enhanced international action
against corruption, building on the United Nations Declaration against Corruption
and Bribery in International Commercial Transactions, 3 the International Code of
Conduct for Public Officials, 4 relevant regional conventions and regional and global
forums. We stress the urgent need to develop an effective international legal
instrument against corruption, independent of the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime, and we invite the Commission on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice to request the Secretary-General to submit to it at
its tenth session, in consultation with States, a thorough review and analysis of all
relevant international instruments and recommendations as part of the preparatory
work for the development of such an instrument. We shall consider supporting the
global programme against corruption developed by the United Nations Centre for
International Crime Prevention and the United Nations Interregional Crime and
Justice Research Institute, which is subject to close consultation with States and
review by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.
17. We reaffirm that combating money-laundering and the criminal economy
constitutes a major element of the strategies against organized crime, established as
a principle in the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan against
Organized Transnational Crime, adopted by the World Ministerial Conference on
Organized Transnational Crime, held at Naples, Italy, from 21 to 23 November
1994. 5 We are convinced that the success of this action rests upon setting up broad
regimes and coordinating appropriate mechanisms to combat the laundering of the
proceeds of crime, including the provision of support to initiatives focusing on
States and territories offering offshore financial services that allow the laundering of
the proceeds of crime.
18. We decide to develop action-oriented policy recommendations on the
prevention and control of computer-related crime, and we invite the Commission on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to undertake work in this regard, taking into
account the ongoing work in other forums. We also commit ourselves to working
towards enhancing our ability to prevent, investigate and prosecute high-technology
and computer-related crime.
19. We note that acts of violence and terrorism continue to be of grave
concern. In conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and taking into
account all the relevant General Assembly resolutions, we shall together, in
conjunction with our other efforts to prevent and to combat terrorism, take effective,
resolute and speedy measures with respect to preventing and combating criminal
activities carried out for the purpose of furthering terrorism in all its forms and
manifestations. With this in view, we undertake to do our utmost to foster universal
adherence to the international instruments concerned with the fight against
terrorism.
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Resolution 51/191, annex.
Resolution 51/59, annex.
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A/49/748, annex, sect. I.A.
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