Follow-up to the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice and preparations for the Fourteenth United
Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
A/RES/73/184
Recognizing the significant contributions of the United Nations congresses on
crime prevention and criminal justice to promoting the exchange of experience in
research, law and policy development and the identification of emerging trends and
issues in crime prevention and criminal justice among States, intergovernmental
organizations and individual experts representing various professions and disciplines,
Recalling its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003 on the integrated and
coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United
Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields, in which it
stressed that all countries should promote policies consistent and coherent with the
commitments of the major United Nations conferences and summits, emphasized that
the United Nations system had an important responsibility to assist Governments to
stay fully engaged in the follow-up to and implementation of agreements and
commitments reached at the major United Nations conferences and summits and
invited its intergovernmental bodies to further promote the implementation of the
outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits,
Recalling also its resolution 62/173 of 18 December 2007, in which it endorsed
the recommendations made by the Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Lessons
Learned from United Nations Congresses on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
at its meeting held in Bangkok from 15 to 18 August 2006, 2
Recalling further its resolution 70/174 of 17 December 2015, in which it
endorsed the Doha Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
into the Wider United Nations Agenda to Address Social and Economic Challenges
and to Promote the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, and Public
Participation, adopted by the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice, and welcomed with appreciation the offer of the
Government of Japan to act as host to the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, in 2020,
Recalling its resolution 72/192 of 19 December 2017, in which it approved the
agenda items and decided upon the main theme and the topics for the workshops of
the Fourteenth Congress and also decided that the duration of the Fourteenth Congress
should not exceed eight days,
Recalling also its resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, in which it adopted the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recognizing the importance of the substantive contributions that the Fourteenth
Congress can make to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda,
Encouraged by the success of the Thirteenth Congress as one of the largest and
most diverse forums for the exchange of views on and experiences in research, law
and policy and programme development between States, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations and individual experts representing various professions
and disciplines,
Stressing the importance of undertaking all preparatory activities for the
Fourteenth Congress in a timely and concerted manner,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 3
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Reiterates its invitation to Governments to take into consideration the
Doha Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice into the
Wider United Nations Agenda to Address Social and Economic Challenges and to
Promote the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, and Public
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See E/CN.15/2007/6, chap. IV.
E/CN.15/2018/11.
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