Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
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4.
Encourages Member States to promote the integrity, honesty and
responsibility of criminal justice practitioners through specialized and appropriate
training and the application of codes or standards of conduct, and in this context notes
the work of the Global Judicial Integrity Network aimed at strengthening judicial
integrity;
5.
Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider ratifying or
acceding to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
and the Protocols thereto, 1 the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as
amended by the 1972 Protocol, 2 the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, 3
the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances of 1988, 4 the United Nations Convention against Corruption 5
and the international conventions and protocols related to terrorism, and urges States
parties to those conventions and protocols to make efforts towards their effective
implementation, particularly with regard to preventing and combating transnational
organized crime, including cybercrime;
6.
Reaffirms that the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 10 the twentieth anniversary of which will be celebrated in 2020,
and the Protocols thereto represent the most important tools of the internation al
community for fighting transnational organized crime, including cybercrime, and
notes with appreciation that the number of States parties has reached 190, which is a
significant indication of the commitment shown by the international community to
combating transnational organized crime;
7.
Welcomes the adoption of resolution 9/1 of 19 October 2018, entitled
“Establishment of the Mechanism for the Review of the Implementation of the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto”,
at the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, held in Vienna
from 15 to 19 October 2018, 32 and urges States parties to implement and support the
Mechanism;
8.
Encourages States parties to the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime to submit case law, legislation and other relevant
responses to the knowledge management portal known as Sharing Electronic
Resources and Laws on Crime;
9.
Welcomes the decisions of the Conference of the Parties at its eighth
session, held in Vienna from 17 to 21 October 2016, to promote greater use of the
Convention by central authorities in extradition and mutual legal assistance and to
enhance the effectiveness of these authorities and to strengthen, as a ppropriate, the
implementation 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
10. Urges States parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption
to continue to provide full support to the review mechanism adopted by the
Conference of the States Parties to the Convention, notes the progress made under the
second cycle of the Mechanism for the Review of Implementation of the Convention,
and further notes with appreciation that the number of States parties has reached 186,
which is a significant indication of the commitment shown by the international
community to combating corruption and related crimes;
11. Also urges States parties to the United Nations Convention against
Corruption to increase their efforts and to take measures to prevent and counter
corruption, with the necessary focus on, among others, acts of corruption that involve
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