Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
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12. Encourages all States to have national and local action plans for crime
prevention in order to take into account, in a comprehensive, integrated and
participatory manner, inter alia, factors that place certain populations and places at
higher risk of victimization and/or of offending, and to ensure that such pl ans are
based on the best available evidence and good practices, and stresses that crime
prevention should be considered an integral element of strategies to foster social and
economic development in all States, in accordance with the commitments contained
in General Assembly resolution 70/1;
13. Urges Member States and relevant international organizations to develop
national, subregional, regional and international strategies, as appropriate, and other
necessary measures, in cooperation with the United Nations crime prevention and
criminal justice programme, to effectively address transnational organized crime,
and to strengthen all forms of cooperation to enable the return of assets illicitly
acquired from corruption, in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations
Convention against Corruption for asset recovery, in particular chapter V, with the
cooperation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its existing
mandate;
14. Reaffirms the importance of the United Nations crime prevention and
criminal justice programme in promoting effective action to strengthen international
cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice, as well as of the work of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the fulfilment of its mandate in crime
prevention and criminal justice, including providing to Member States, upon request
and as a matter of high priority, technical cooperation, advisory services and other
forms of assistance, and coordinating with and complementing the work of all
relevant and competent United Nations bodies and offices in respect of all forms of
organized crime, including piracy and transnational organized crime committed at
sea, cybercrime, the use of new information technologies to abuse and exploit
children, as well as identity-related crime, trafficking in cultural property, illicit
financial flows, economic, financial and tax crime, trafficking in precious metals
and stones, counterfeiting in trademark goods, crimes that affect the environment
and illicit trafficking in endangered species of wild fauna and flora, drug trafficking,
trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants and illicit manufacturing of and
trafficking in firearms, direct and indirect trade in oil and refined oil products with
organized criminal and terrorist groups, as well as corruption and terrorism;
15. Calls upon Member States to strengthen cooperation at the international,
regional, subregional and bilateral levels to counter the threat posed by foreign
terrorist fighters, including through enhanced operational and timely informationsharing, logistical support, as appropriate, and capacity-building activities, such as
those provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to share and
adopt best practices to identify foreign terrorist fighters, to prevent the travel of
foreign terrorist fighters from, into or through Member States, to prevent the
financing, mobilization, recruitment and organization of foreign terrorist fighters, to
counter violent extremism and radicalization to violence, which can be conducive to
terrorism, to enhance efforts to implement deradicalization programmes and to
ensure that any person who participates in the financing, planning, preparation or
perpetration of terrorist acts or in the supporting of terroris t acts is brought to
justice, in compliance with obligations under international law, as well as applicable
domestic law;
16. Urges the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to increase
collaboration with intergovernmental, international and regional o rganizations that
have transnational organized crime mandates, as appropriate, in order to share best
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