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3.
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a report analysing all relevant
international legal instruments, other documents and recommendations addressing
corruption, 4 considering, inter alia, obligations as regards criminalization of all
forms of corruption and international cooperation, regulatory aspects of corruption
and the relationship between corruption and money-laundering, and to submit it to
the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at an inter-sessional
meeting in order to allow Member States to provide comments to the Commission
prior to its tenth session;
4.
Requests the Commission, at its tenth session, to review and assess the
report of the Secretary-General and, on that basis, to provide recommendations and
guidance as to future work on the development of a legal instrument against
corruption;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General to convene, upon completion of the
negotiation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime and the related protocols, an intergovernmental open-ended expert group to
examine and prepare, on the basis of the report of the Secretary-General and of the
recommendations of the Commission at its tenth session, draft terms of reference for
the negotiation of the future legal instrument against corruption;
6.
Requests the intergovernmental open-ended expert group to submit the
draft terms of reference for the negotiation of the future legal instrument, through
the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Economic and
Social Council, to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session for adoption;
7.
Decides to establish an ad hoc committee for the negotiation of such an
instrument to start its work in Vienna as soon as the draft terms of reference for such
negotiation are adopted;
8.
Invites donor countries to assist the United Nations in ensuring the
effective participation of developing countries, in particular least developed
countries, in the work of the intergovernmental open-ended expert group and the ad
hoc committee, including travel and local expenses;
9.
Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission and the
intergovernmental open-ended expert group with the required facilities and
resources to support their work.
81st plenary meeting
4 December 2000
Annex
Indicative list of international legal instruments, documents and
recommendations against corruption
(a)
4
International Code of Conduct for Public Officials; 5
See the annex to the present resolution for an indicative list of such legal instruments, documents and
recommendations.
5
Resolution 51/59, annex.
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