A/RES/61/209. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Year: 2006
• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/209
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/209

General Assembly Distr.: General

6 March 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 55 (d)

06-50691

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006

[on the report of the Second Committee (A/61/424/Add.4)]

61/209. Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer

of assets of illicit origin and returning such assets, in

particular to the countries of origin, consistent with the

United Nations Convention against Corruption

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 54/205 of 22 December 1999, 56/186 of 21 December

2001 and 57/244 of 20 December 2002, and recalling also its resolutions 58/205 of

23 December 2003, 59/242 of 22 December 2004 and 60/207 of 22 December 2005,

Welcoming

the entry into force on 14 December 2005 of the United Nations

Convention against Corruption,

1

Welcoming also

the convening of the first session of the Conference of the

States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption, in Jordan, from

10 to 14 December 2006,

1.

Takes note

of the report of the Secretary-General;

2

2.

Also takes note

of the generous offer of the Government of Indonesia to

host the second session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations

Convention against Corruption;

3.

Urges

all Member States and competent regional economic integration

organizations, within the limits of their competence, to consider ratifying or acceding

to the United Nations Convention against Corruption

1

as a matter of priority, and

calls upon all States parties to fully implement the Convention as soon as possible;

4.

Requests

the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its

sixty-second session a report, completed within existing resources, on the

implementation of previous resolutions that would elaborate further on the

magnitude of corruption at all levels and on any scale, and on the scale of the

transfer of assets of illicit origin derived from corruption and the impact of

corruption and such transfers on economic growth and sustainable development,

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1 Resolution 58/4, annex.

2 A/61/177.