Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
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counter corruption in all its forms, including bribery, as well as the laundering of
proceeds of corruption and other forms of crime,
Bearing in mind that the return of assets is one of the main objectives as well
as a fundamental principle of the United Nations Convention against Corruption and
that the States parties to the Convention are obligated to afford one another the
widest measure of cooperation in that regard,
Recognizing that, thanks to their broad membership and wide scope of
application, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 9
and the United Nations Convention against Corruption offer important bases for
international cooperation, inter alia, for extradition, mutual legal assistance and
confiscation and asset recovery, and that they provide effective mechanisms that
should be further utilized and implemented,
Stressing the importance of strengthened international cooperation, based on
the principles of shared responsibility and in accordance with international law, to
effectively address the world drug problem, dismantle illicit networks and counter
transnational organized crime, including money-laundering, smuggling of migrants,
trafficking in persons, trafficking in arms and other forms of organized crime, all of
which threaten national security and undermine sustainable development and the
rule of law,
Noting the important contribution that public-private sector cooperation can
make in efforts to prevent and combat criminal activities, such as transnational
organized crime, corruption and terrorism, in particular in the tourism sector,
Reaffirming the commitments undertaken by Member States in the United
Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, adopted on 8 September 2006, 10 and its
successive biennial reviews,
Recalling the importance of the measures to eliminate international terrorism
adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 69/127 and the adoption, on
18 December 2013, of resolution 68/178 on the protection of human rights and
fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism,
Recalling also its resolution 66/177 of 19 December 2011 on strengthening
international cooperation in combating the harmful effects of illicit financial flows
resulting from criminal activities, in which it urged States parties to the United
Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances of 1988, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime and the United Nations Convention against Corruption to apply fully the
provisions of those Conventions, in particular measures to prevent and combat
money-laundering, including by criminalizing the laundering of proceeds of
transnational organized crime, as well as measures to enhance national confiscation
regimes and international cooperation, including in asset recovery,
Expressing concern that economic resources, such as oil, oil products, modular
refineries and related material, other natural resources and other assets are made
available to organized criminal and terrorist groups,
Taking into consideration all resolutions of the Commission on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice and the relevant resolutions of the Economic and
Social Council, in particular those relating to the strengthening of international
cooperation, as well as the technical assistance and advisory services of the United
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