A/RES/55/59. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2000

• Resolution Number: A/RES/55/59
• Year: 2000
• Session: 55th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/55/59

General Assembly Distr.: General

17 January 2001

Fifty-fifth session

Agenda item 105

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/55/593)]

55/59. Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the

Challenges of the Twenty-first Century

The Genera l Assembly,

Recalling that, in its resolution 54/125 of 17 December 1999, it requested the

Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of

Offenders to submit, through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal

Justice and the Econ omic and Social C ouncil, its declaratio n to the Millenniu m

Assembly for consideration and action and requested the Commission to give

priority attention at its ninth session to the conclusions and recommendations of the

Tenth Congress, with a view to recommending, through the Economic and Social

Council, appropriate follow-up by the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session,

Endorses the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the

Challenges of the Twenty-first Century, adopted by the States Members of the

United Nations and the other States participating in the high-level segment of the

Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of

Offenders,

1

as contained in the annex to the present resolution.

81st plenary meeting

4 December 2000

Annex

Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the

Twenty-first Century

We the States Members of the United Nations,

Concerned about the impact on our societies of the commission of serious

crimes of a global nature, and convinced of the need for bilateral, regional and

international cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice,

Concerned in particular about transnational organized crime and the

relationships between its various forms,

1 See Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Vienna,

10–17 April 2000: report pr epared by the Secretariat (United Nations publicati on, Sales No. E.00.IV.8).