A/RES/75/194
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
28 December 2020
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 111
Crime prevention and criminal justice
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 December 2020
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/75/479, para. 20)]
75/194.
Preventing and combating corrupt practices and the transfer of
proceeds of corruption, facilitating asset recovery and returning
such assets to legitimate owners, in particular to countries of
origin, in accordance with the United Nations Convention
against Corruption
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/205 of 22 December 1999, 55/61 of 4 December
2000, 55/188 of 20 December 2000, 56/186 of 21 December 2001 and 57/244 of
20 December 2002, and recalling also its resolutions 58/205 of 23 December 2003,
59/242 of 22 December 2004, 60/207 of 22 December 2005, 61/209 of 20 December
2006, 62/202 of 19 December 2007, 63/226 of 19 December 2008, 64/237 of
24 December 2009, 65/169 of 20 December 2010, 67/189 and 67/192 of 20 December
2012, 68/195 of 18 December 2013, 69/199 of 18 December 2014, 71/208 of
19 December 2016 and 73/190 of 17 December 2018 and all relevant Human Rights
Council resolutions, including resolutions 23/9 of 13 June 2013, 1 29/11 of 2 July
2015 2 and 35/25 of 23 June 2017, 3 as well as its resolution 74/276 of 1 June 2020 and
its decision 74/568 of 31 August 2020,
Welcoming the entry into force on 14 December 2005 of the United Nations
Convention against Corruption, 4 which is the most comprehensive and universal
instrument on corruption, and recognizing the need to continue to promote its
ratification or accession thereto and its full and effective implementation,
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20-17354 (E)
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/68/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2349, No. 42146.
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