A/RES/64/179
United Nations
Distr.: General
26 March 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 104
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2009
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/64/440 and Corr.1)]
64/179. Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical
cooperation capacity
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/152 of 18 December 1991, 60/1 of 16 September
2005, 60/177 of 16 December 2005, 61/252 of 22 December 2006, 63/193, 63/194
and 63/195 of 18 December 2008 and 63/226 of 19 December 2008,
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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Reaffirming its resolutions relating to the urgent need to strengthen
international cooperation and technical assistance in promoting and facilitating the
ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, 2 the United Nations
Convention against Corruption 3 and all the international conventions and protocols
against terrorism, including those that recently entered into force,
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Reaffirming also the commitments undertaken by Member States in the United
Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted on 8 September 2006, 4 and its
review of 4 and 5 September 2008, 5
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Emphasizing that its resolution 61/143 of 19 December 2006 on the
intensification of efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women has
considerable implications for the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice Programme and its activities,
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1
Economic and Social Council resolution 2007/12, annex.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.
3
Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146.
4
Resolution 60/288.
5
See resolution 62/272; see also Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Plenary
Meetings, 117th to 120th meetings (A/62/PV.117–120), and corrigendum.
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