A/RES/71/208
United Nations
Distr.: General
13 February 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/485)]
71/208. Preventing and combating corrupt practices and the
transfer of proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset
recovery and returning such assets to legitimate owners,
in particular to countries of origin, in accordance with
the United Nations Convention against Corruption
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/205 of 22 December 1999, 55/61 of 4 December
2000, 55/188 of 20 December 2000, 56/186 of 21 December 2001 and 57/244 of
20 December 2002, and recalling also its resolutions 58/205 of 23 December 2003,
59/242 of 22 December 2004, 60/207 of 22 December 2005, 61/209 of 20 December
2006, 62/202 of 19 December 2007, 63/226 of 19 December 2008, 64/237 of
24 December 2009, 65/169 of 20 December 2010, 67/189 and 67/192 of
20 December 2012, 68/195 of 18 December 2013 and 69/199 of 18 December 2014
and all relevant Human Rights Council resolutions, including resolutions 23/9 of
13 June 2013 1 and 29/11 of 2 July 2015, 2
Welcoming the entry into force on 14 December 2005 of the United Nations
Convention against Corruption, 3 which is the most comprehensive and universal
instrument on corruption, and recognizing the need to continue to promote its
ratification or accession thereto and its full and effective implementation,
Stressing the need for States parties to the Convention to give full effect to the
resolutions of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention
against Corruption,
Bearing in mind the need to promote and strengthen measures to prevent and
combat corruption more efficiently and effectively, that the return of assets is one of
the main objectives, an integral part and a fundamental principle of the Convention,
and recalling article 51 of the Convention, under which States parties shall afford
one another the widest measure of cooperation and assistance with regard to asset
return,
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/68/53),
chap. V, sect. A.
2
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. V, sect. A.
3
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2349, No. 42146.
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