A/RES/55/61 (b) United Nations Declaration International Commercial Transactions; 6 against Corruption and Bribery in (c) General Assembly resolution 54/128, in which the Assembly subscribed to the conclusions and recommendations of the Expert Group Meeting on Corruption and its Financial Channels, held in Paris from 30 March to 1 April 1999; 7 (d) Report of the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders; 3 (e) Inter-American Convention against Corruption Organization of American States on 29 March 1996; 8 adopted by the (f) Recommendation 32 of the Senior Experts Group on Transnational Organized Crime endorsed by the Political Group of Eight in Lyon, France, on 29 June 1996; 9 (g) The Twenty Guiding Principles for the Fight against Corruption adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 6 November 1997; 10 (h) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions adopted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on 21 November 1997; 11 (i) Agreement Establishing the Group of States against Corruption adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 1 May 1999, 12 and the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 4 November 1998; 13 (j) Joint Action on corruption in the private sector adopted by the Council of the European Union on 22 December 1998; 14 (k) Declarations made by the first Global Forum on Fighting Corruption, held in Washington, D.C., from 24 to 26 February 1999, 15 and the second Global Forum, to be held in The Hague in 2001; (l) Civil Law Convention on Corruption adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 9 September 1999; 16 6 Resolution 51/191, annex. E/CN.15/1999/10, paras. 1–14. 8 See E/1996/99. 9 See Economic and Social Council resolution 1997/22, annex I. 10 See Council of Europe, Texts adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, 1997, Strasbourg, France, 1998, resolution (97) 24. 11 See Corruption and Integrity Improvement Initiatives in Developing Countries (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.98.III.B.18). 12 See Official Gazette of the Council of Europe: Committee of Ministers part-volume, No. V – May 1999, resolution (99) 5. 13 Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 173. 14 See Official Journal of the European Communities, No. L 358, 31 December 1998. 15 E/CN.15/1999/WP.1/Add.1. 16 Council of Europe, European Treaty Series, No. 174. 7 3