Promotion of international cooperation to combat illicit
financial flows and strengthen good practices on
assets return to foster sustainable development
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limited liability partnerships, and invites all jurisdictions to consider establishing
appropriate mechanisms, in line with international standards, where applicable;
22. Encourages States parties to the United Nations Convention against
Corruption to make full use of the asset recovery tools set forth in chapter V of the
Convention, including mechanisms for the enforcement of foreign restraining and
confiscation orders, as a means of significantly reducing the expenses that a State
party may normally incur in pursuing asset recovery;
23. Calls upon all States parties to the United Nations Convention against
Corruption, in particular requesting and requested States parties, to cooperate to recover
the proceeds of crime, as defined in the Convention, and to fulfil their obligation to
ensure the return or disposal of such proceeds, in accordance with article 57 of the
Convention;
24. Recognizes the importance of enhanced capacity for data collection and
analysis to combat illicit financial flows, emphasizing the need to increase the
exchange of data within national government institutions as well as from international
institutions;
25. Emphasizes the importance of the ongoing efforts of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime, in coordination with the United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development and other institutions, to develop a methodology to produce
estimates of the total value of inward and outward illicit financial flows;
26. Invites the President of the General Assembly, the President of the
Economic and Social Council and the Secretary-General to give appropriate
consideration to the importance of combating illicit financial flows and strengthening
good practices on assets return to foster sustainable development, and in this regard
invites all relevant international institutions to support these efforts, in accordance
with their respective mandates;
27. Reaffirms the commitment at the very heart of the 2030 Agenda to leave
no one behind and commit to taking more tangible steps to support people in
vulnerable situations and the most vulnerable countries and to reach the furthest
behind first;
28. Looks forward to the inclusion, in the 2020 report of the Inter-Agency Task
Force on Financing for Development, of an analysis of international cooperation to
combat illicit financial flows and strengthen good practices on assets return to foster
sustainable development, pursuant to the mandate of the Task Force, and also looks
forward to the deliberations of the Economic and Social Council forum on financing
for development follow-up on efforts to combat illicit financial flows;
29. Requests the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development, in consultation with relevant entities of the United Nations system,
including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, to inform the General
Assembly at its seventy-fifth session of the implementation of the present resolution,
through a dedicated section of the Sustainable Development Goals Pulse report and
of the Trade and Development Report, elaborating in particular on the challenges that
Member States experience in combating illicit financial flo ws and recovering and
returning stolen assets and on the options available to help to accelerate the
elimination of illicit financial flows and to return stolen assets, in line with
commitments contained in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third Intern ational
Conference on Financing for Development 7 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development;
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