A/RES/70/178. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2015

Resolution NumberA/RES/70/178
Year2015
Session70th
IssuerGeneral Assembly of the United Nation
United Nations
A/RES/70/178
General Assembly
Distr.: General
25 February 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 106
15-16932 (E)
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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2015
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/70/490)]
70/178. Strengthening the United Nations crime prevention and
criminal justice programme, in particular its technical
cooperation capacity
The General Assembl y,
Reaffirming i ts resol utions 46/152 o f 18 December 1991, 60/1 o f 16 Se ptember
2005 , 6 7/1 of 19 Se ptember 2 012, 69/12 7 o f 10 Dec ember 2014 , 6 9/149, 69 /192,
69/1 93, 6 9/196, 69/197 and 69/20 1 of 18 De cember 2014 , 69/2 81 o f 28 May 2 015,
69/3 14 of 3 0 July 2 015 and 70/1 of 25 Sep tember 2015,
Reaff irming also its reso lutions rela ting t o the urge nt ne ed to stre ngthen
inter nationa l coo peratio n and tech nical assist ance in pr omoti ng an d fa cilitatin g th e
ratif ication and imple mentati on of t he Unit ed Nati ons Con vention agai nst
Trans national Organiz ed Cri me and t he Prot ocols t hereto,
1
the Single Convent ion on
Narc otic Dru gs of 1 961 as a mended by the 1972 P rotocol,
2
the Conve ntion on
Psyc hotropic Substan ces of 1 971,
3
the United N ations C onventio n agains t Illicit
Traffi c in N arcotic Drugs and Psy chotrop ic Subs tances of 1988 ,
4
the United Nation s
Conv ention again st Co rruptio n
5
and all the intern ational conv entions and proto cols
agai nst terro rism,
Welcoming the r esults achieve d by the T hirteent h Uni ted Na tions Congres s on
Crim e P reventi on and Crimi nal Justice , h eld in Doha fro m 12 to 19 Apr il 2015,
6
inclu ding the Doha Decl aration on Integ rating Crime Prev ention and Crim inal
Just ice into t he Wider U nited Nat ions Age nda to Ad dress So cial and E conomic
Chal lenges a nd to P romote t he Rule of Law at the National and In ternatio nal Leve ls,
and Public P articipa tion,
7
Expre ssing its gra ve conce rn a bout the neg ative effe cts o f tr ansnatio nal
organ ized crime on de velopme nt, p eace, stabilit y and secur ity a nd hu man ri ghts, at
the increas ing vul nerabili ty of States t o such crime and ab out the growi ng degr ee of
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series , vols. 2225, 2 237, 22 41 and 2326, No. 39574.
2
Ibid., vol. 976 , No. 141 52.
3
Ibid., vol. 101 9, No. 14 956.
4
Ibid., vol. 158 2, No. 27 627.
5
Ibid., vol. 234 9, No. 42 146.
6
See A/C ONF. 222/1 7.
7
Resolut ion 70/ 174, annex.

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