A/RES/70/178
United Nations
Distr.: General
25 February 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/490)]
70/178. Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and
criminal justice programme, in particular its technical
cooperation capacity
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 46/152 of 18 December 1991, 60/1 of 16 September
2005, 67/1 of 19 September 2012, 69/127 of 10 December 2014, 69/149, 69/192,
69/193, 69/196, 69/197 and 69/201 of 18 December 2014, 69/281 of 28 May 2015,
69/314 of 30 July 2015 and 70/1 of 25 September 2015,
Reaffirming also 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, 1 the Single Convention on
Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, 2 the Convention on
Psychotropic Substances of 1971, 3 the United Nations Convention against Illicit
Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988, 4 the United Nations
Convention against Corruption 5 and all the international conventions and protocols
against terrorism,
Welcoming the results achieved by the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Doha from 12 to 1 9 April 2015, 6
including 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, 7
Expressing its grave concern about the negative effects of transnational
organized crime on development, peace, stability and security and human rights, at
the increasing vulnerability of States to such crime and about the growing degree of
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 976, No. 14152.
Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956.
Ibid., vol. 1582, No. 27627.
Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146.
See A/CONF.222/17.
Resolution 70/174, annex.
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