United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/60/177
Distr.: General
20 March 2006
Sixtieth session
Agenda item 106
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 16 December 2005
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/60/510 and Corr.1)]
60/177. Follow-up to the Eleventh United Nations Congress on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/270 B of 23 June 2003, in which it emphasized that
the United Nations system had an important responsibility to assist Governments to
stay fully engaged in the follow-up to and implementation of agreements and
commitments reached at the major United Nations conferences and summits and
invited its intergovernmental bodies to further promote the implementation of the
outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits,
Recalling also its resolution 59/151 of 20 December 2004, in which it
requested the Secretary-General to ensure proper follow-up to the resolution and to
report thereon, through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice,
to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session,
Having considered the report of the Eleventh United Nations Congress on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 1 and the related recommendations made by
the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its fourteenth session, 2
Bearing in mind its resolution 60/175 of 16 December 2005 on strengthening
the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, in particular
its technical cooperation capacity, and the role of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime in the implementation of the measures outlined in the Bangkok
Declaration on Synergies and Responses: Strategic Alliances in Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice,
Endorses the Bangkok Declaration on Synergies and Responses:
1.
Strategic Alliances in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, as contained in the
annex to the present resolution, which was adopted by the Eleventh United Nations
Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and approved by the
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its fourteenth session and
subsequently by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2005/15 of
22 July 2005;
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1
Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Bangkok, 18–25 April
2005: report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.05.IV.7).
2
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2005, Supplement No. 10 (E/2005/30).
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