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9. Calls upon all relevant programmes, funds and organizations of the United Nations system, in
particular the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and other international, regional and
national funding agencies, to support technical operational activities in this field;
10. Takes note with appreciation of the contributions of the United Nations Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice Programme to United Nations peacekeeping and special missions, as well as its
contributions to the follow-up to those missions, inter alia, through advisory services, and encourages the
Secretary-General, as a way of strengthening the rule of law, to recommend the inclusion of the reestablishment and reform of judicial and criminal justice systems in peacekeeping operations;
11. Requests the Executive Director of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention to continue
to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations International Drug Control Programme and the Centre
for International Crime Prevention, in particular in the areas of transnational organized crime and moneylaundering;
12. Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures to assist the Commission on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice, as the principal policy-making body in this field, in performing its activities,
including cooperation and coordination with other relevant bodies, such as the Commission on Narcotic
Drugs, the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on the Status of Women;
13. Calls upon the open-ended intergovernmental ad hoc committee, established on the
recommendation of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, for the purpose of elaborating
a comprehensive international convention against transnational organized crime to devote attention to the
drafting of the main text of the convention, as well as, as appropriate, of international instruments addressing
trafficking in women and children, combating the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their
parts and components and ammunition, and illegal trafficking in and transporting of migrants, including by
sea;
14. Welcomes the efforts undertaken by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to
improve the strategic management of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme
and to exercise more vigorously its mandated function of resource mobilization, and calls upon the
Commission to strengthen further its activities in this direction;
15. Also welcomes the decision of the Commission to mainstream a gender perspective into all its
activities and its request to the Secretariat that a gender perspective be integrated into all activities of the
Centre for International Crime Prevention;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report on the implementation of the present resolution
to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session.
85th plenary meeting
9 December 1998