United Nations
A/RES/69/196
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 January 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 105
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2014
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/69/489)]
69/196. International Guidelines for Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice Responses with Respect to Trafficking
in Cultural Property and Other Related Offences
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 66/180 of 19 December 2011 and 68/186 of
18 December 2013, entitled “Strengthening crime prevention and criminal justice
responses to protect cultural property, especially with regard to its trafficking”,
Recalling also the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 55/25 of 15 November
2000,1 as well as the United Nations Convention against Corruption, adopted by the
Assembly in its resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003,2
Recalling further the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing
the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, adopted
by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization on 14 November 1970,3 the Convention on Stolen or Illegally
Exported Cultural Objects, adopted by the International Institute for the Unification
of Private Law on 24 June 1995,4 and the Convention for the Protection of Cultural
Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, adopted at The Hague on 14 May 1954, 5
and the two Protocols thereto, adopted on 14 May 19545 and 26 March 1999,6 and
other relevant conventions, and reaffirming the necessity for those States which
have not done so to consider ratifying or acceding to and, as States parties,
implementing those international instruments,
Alarmed at the growing involvement of organized criminal groups in all forms
and aspects of trafficking in cultural property and related offences, and observing
that illicitly trafficked cultural property is increasingly being sold through all kinds
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146.
3
Ibid., vol. 823, No. 11806.
4
Ibid., vol. 2421, No. 43718.
5
Ibid., vol. 249, No. 3511.
6
Ibid., vol. 2253, No. 3511.
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