United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/63/195
Distr.: General
10 March 2009
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 97
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2008
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/63/431)]
63/195. Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical
cooperation capacity
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 46/152 of 18 December 1991 on the creation of an
effective United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, and its
resolution 62/175 of 18 December 2007 on strengthening the United Nations Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical cooperation
capacity,
Recalling also its resolution 60/1 of 16 September 2005 on the 2005 World
Summit Outcome, in particular the sections on transnational crime and terrorism,
Taking note with appreciation of the adoption by the Economic and Social
Council of the strategy for the period 2008–2011 for the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime, 1 which aims, inter alia, to enhance its effectiveness and flexibility
in providing technical assistance and policy services,
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Recalling section XI of its resolution 61/252 of 22 December 2006, entitled
“Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Programme and the role of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice as its governing body”, in which the Commission, as the principal United
Nations policymaking body on crime prevention and criminal justice issues, was
given the authority to approve the budget of the United Nations Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice Fund, and welcoming the outcome of the reconvened sixteenth
session of the Commission, held on 29 and 30 November 2007,
Recalling also its resolution 62/173 of 18 December 2007 entitled “Follow-up
to the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
and preparations for the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice”,
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See Economic and Social Council resolutions 2007/12 and 2007/19.