Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity A/RES/74/177 Concerned at the serious challenges and threats posed by illicit trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, and about its links with other forms of transnational organized crime, including drug trafficking, as well as terrorism, Noting international efforts to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in conventional arms, in particular in small arms and light weapons, as demonstrated by the adoption in 2001 of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, 24 the entry into force in 2005 of the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 25 and the entry into force in 2014 of the Arms Trade Treaty, 26 Welcoming the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on Strengthening Our Actions at the National, Regional and International Levels to Accelerate the Implementatio n of Our Joint Commitments to Address and Counter the World Drug Problem, 27 adopted during the ministerial segment of the sixty-second session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, in which Member States committed to accelerating, based on the principle of common and shared responsibility, the full implementation of the 2009 Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem, 28 the Joint Ministerial Statement of the 2014 high-level review by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the implementation by Member States of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action 29 and the outcome document of the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem held in 2016, 30 aimed at achieving all commitments, operational recommendations and aspirational goals set out therein, 1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General prepared pursuant to resolution 73/186; 31 2. Reaffirms its resolution 70/1, entitled “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which, inter alia, includes the commitment to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels; 3. Calls upon all Member States, when appropriate, to take into consideration the Doha Declaration on Integrating Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice into the Wider United Nations Agenda to Address Social and Economic Challenges and to Promote the Rule of Law at the National and International Levels, and Public Participation, adopted at the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Doha from 12 to 19 April 2015, 6 when formulating legislation and policy directives, and to make every effort, where appropriate, to implement the principles contained therein in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to provide technic al assistance, upon request, to Member States, including through its Global Programme for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration and the Education for Justice initiative; __________________ 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 20-22334 Report of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, New York, 9–20 July 2001 (A/CONF.192/15), chap. IV, para. 24. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2326, No. 39574. See resolution 67/234 B. See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2019, Supplement No. 8 (E/2019/28), chap. I, sect. B. Ibid., 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. I, sect. C. Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 8 (E/2014/28), chap. I, sect. C. Resolution S-30/1, annex. A/74/125. 11/21