A/RES/61/181. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/181
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/181

General Assembly Distr.: General

8 March 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 98

06-50529

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006

[on the report of the Third Committee (A/61/444)]

61/181. Strengthening the United Nations Crime Prevention and

Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical

cooperation capacity

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolution 46/152 of 18 December 1991 on the creation of an

effective United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme, in which

it approved the statement of principles and programme of action annexed thereto, its

resolution 60/175 of 16 December 2005 on strengthening the United Nations Crime

Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, in particular its technical cooperation

capacity, its resolution 60/1 of 16 September 2005 on the 2005 World Summit

Outcome, in particular the sections on terrorism and transnational crime, and its

resolutions relating to the urgent need to strengthen international cooperation and

technical assistance in promoting and facilitating the ratification and

implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized

Crime and the Protocols thereto,

1

the United Nations Convention against

Corruption

2

and the international conventions and protocols against terrorism,

Recognizing

the importance of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism

Strategy, adopted on 8 September 2006,

3

in which Member States resolved to take

urgent action to prevent and combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations,

including enhancing cooperation and technical assistance among Member States,

United Nations bodies dealing with counter-terrorism, relevant specialized agencies,

relevant international, regional and subregional organizations and the donor

community, and in particular encouraged the United Nations Office on Drugs and

Crime, including its Terrorism Prevention Branch, to enhance, in close consultation

with the Counter-Terrorism Committee and its Executive Directorate, its provision

of technical assistance to States, upon request, to facilitate the implementation of the

international conventions and protocols related to the prevention and suppression of

terrorism and relevant United Nations resolutions,

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1 Resolution 55/25, annexes I–III, and resolution 55/255, annex.

2 Resolution 58/4, annex.

3 Resolution 60/288.