Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and criminal
justice programme, in particular its technical cooperation capacity
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25. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
foster international and regional cooperation, including by facilitating the
development of regional networks active in the field of legal and law enforcement
cooperation in the fight against transnational organized crime, where appropriate,
and by promoting cooperation among all such networks, including by providing
technical assistance where it is required, recognizing the efforts made by the Office
to establish and assist such networks;
26. Urges the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to increase
collaboration with intergovernmental, international and regional organizations that
have transnational organized crime mandates, as appropriate, in order to share best
practices, foster cooperation and take advantage of their unique and comparative
advantage;
27. Recognizes the efforts made by the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime to assist Member States in developing their abilities and strengthening their
capacity to prevent and combat kidnapping, and requests the Office to continue to
provide technical assistance with a view to fostering international cooperation, in
particular mutual legal assistance, aimed at countering effectively this growing
serious crime;
28. Draws attention to the emerging policy issues identified in the report of
the Secretary-General on the implementation of the mandates of the United Nations
crime prevention and criminal justice programme, with particular reference to the
technical cooperation activities of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
namely, piracy, cybercrime, the use of new information technologies to abuse and
exploit children, trafficking in cultural property, illicit financial flows,
environmental crime, including illicit trafficking in endangered species of wild
fauna and flora, as well as identity-related crime, and invites the Office to explore,
within its mandate, ways and means of addressing those issues, bearing in mind
Economic and Social Council resolution 2012/12 of 26 July 2012 on the strategy for
the period 2012–2015 for the Office;
29. Invites Member States and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime, within its existing mandate, to continue to strengthen the regular
collection, analysis and dissemination of accurate, reliable and comparable data and
information, including, as appropriate, data disaggregated by sex, age and other
relevant criteria, and strongly encourages Member States to share such data and
information with the Office;
30. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
develop, in close cooperation with Member States, technical and methodological
tools and trend analyses and studies to enhance knowledge on crime trends and
support Member States in designing appropriate responses in specific areas of
crime, in particular in their transnational dimension, taking into account the need to
make the best possible use of existing resources;
31. Urges Member States and relevant international organizations to develop
national and regional strategies, as appropriate, and other necessary measures, in
cooperation with the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice
programme, to address effectively transnational organized crime, including drug
trafficking, trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants and illicit manufacturing
of and trafficking in firearms, as well as corruption and terrorism;
32. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue to
assist Member States, upon request, in combating illicit manufacturing of and
trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition and to support
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