A/RES/55/61 3. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a report analysing all relevant international legal instruments, other documents and recommendations addressing corruption, 4 considering, inter alia, obligations as regards criminalization of all forms of corruption and international cooperation, regulatory aspects of corruption and the relationship between corruption and money-laundering, and to submit it to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at an inter-sessional meeting in order to allow Member States to provide comments to the Commission prior to its tenth session; 4. Requests the Commission, at its tenth session, to review and assess the report of the Secretary-General and, on that basis, to provide recommendations and guidance as to future work on the development of a legal instrument against corruption; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to convene, upon completion of the negotiation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the related protocols, an intergovernmental open-ended expert group to examine and prepare, on the basis of the report of the Secretary-General and of the recommendations of the Commission at its tenth session, draft terms of reference for the negotiation of the future legal instrument against corruption; 6. Requests the intergovernmental open-ended expert group to submit the draft terms of reference for the negotiation of the future legal instrument, through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session for adoption; 7. Decides to establish an ad hoc committee for the negotiation of such an instrument to start its work in Vienna as soon as the draft terms of reference for such negotiation are adopted; 8. Invites donor countries to assist the United Nations in ensuring the effective participation of developing countries, in particular least developed countries, in the work of the intergovernmental open-ended expert group and the ad hoc committee, including travel and local expenses; 9. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission and the intergovernmental open-ended expert group with the required facilities and resources to support their work. 81st plenary meeting 4 December 2000 Annex Indicative list of international legal instruments, documents and recommendations against corruption (a) 4 International Code of Conduct for Public Officials; 5 See the annex to the present resolution for an indicative list of such legal instruments, documents and recommendations. 5 Resolution 51/59, annex. 2

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