Draft Resolution
United Nations General Assembly
Agenda: Effects of Transnational Organized crime on
the Economy and Security
Recalling its resolution 60/1 of 16th September 2005, 60/177 of
16th December 2005, 61/252 of 22nd December 2006, 63/194 and
63/195 of 18th December 2008 and 63/226 of 19th December
2008
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/111 of 9 December 1998, in which it decided
to establish an open-ended intergovernmental ad hoc committee for the
purpose of elaborating a comprehensive international convention against
transnational organized crime and of discussing the elaboration, as
appropriate, of inter- national instruments addressing trafficking in
women and children, combating the illicit manufacturing of and
trafficking in firearms, their parts and compo- nents and ammunition, and
illegal trafficking in and transporting of migrants, including by sea,
Recalling also its resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999, in which it
requested the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime to continue its work, in
accordance with resolutions 53/111 and 53/114 of 9 December 1998, and
to intensify that work in order to complete it in 2000,
Recalling further its resolution 54/129 of 17 December 1999, in which it
accepted with appreciation the offer of the Government of Italy to host a
high- level political signing conference in Palermo for the purpose of
signing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime (Palermo Convention) and the protocols thereto, and requested the
Secretary-General to schedule the conference for a period of up to one
week before the end of the Millennium Assembly in 2000,
Expressing its appreciation to the Government of Poland for submitting
to it at its fifty-first session a first draft United Nations convention against
transnational organized crimeand for hosting the meeting of the inter-
sessional open-ended intergovernmental group of experts, established
pursuant to resolution 52/85 of 12 December 1997, on the elaboration of
a preliminary draft of a possible comprehensive international convention
against transnational orga- nized crime, held in Warsaw from 2 to 6
February 1998,
Expressing its appreciation to the Government of Argentina for hosting
the informal preparatory meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee, held in
Buenos Aires from 31 August to 4 September 1998,
Expressing its appreciation to the Government of Thailand for hosting
the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Seminar on Building Capacities for Fighting
Trans- national Organized Crime, held in Bangkok on 20 and 21 March
2000,
Deeply concerned by the negative economic and social implications
related to organized criminal activities, and convinced of the urgent need
to strengthen cooperation to prevent and combat such activities more
effectively at the national, regional and international levels,
Noting with deep concern the growing links between transnational
organized crime and terrorist crimes, taking into account the Charter of
the United Nations and the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly,
Determined to deny safe havens to those who engage in transnational
orga- nized crime by prosecuting their crimes wherever they occur and by
cooperating at the international level,
Strongly convinced that the United Nations Convention against Trans-
national Organized Crime will constitute an effective tool and the
necessary legal framework for international cooperation in combating,
inter alia, such criminal activities as money-laundering, corruption, illicit
trafficking in endangered species of wild flora and fauna, offences against
cultural heritage and the growing links between transnational organized
crime and terrorist crimes,
Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime,which carried out its
work at the headquarters of the United Nations Office for Drug Control
and Crime Prevention in Vienna, and commends the Ad Hoc Committee
for its work;
Notes that the Ad Hoc Committee has not yet completed its work on the
draft Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in
Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime;
Operative Clauses
Urges the member States to invest more in border security and provide
border security with honorary or monetary incentives so as to prevent
them in indulging in corruption
1) Recommends Undercover Sting Operations in secluded corners of
the world where human trafficking is at its peak
2. Encourages Criminal Justice system to adopt and develop better
intelligence methods for improved law enforcement unit
3. Further recommends the regular surveillence of the means of
transport which are used to relocate commodities
4. Requests to Modify the human trafficking laws which requires the
criminalization of the following:
a. Attempt to commit a trafficking offence
b. Participation as an accomplice in such an offence
c. Organizing or directing others to commit traficking offences
5. Suggests a strong and harmonized legislative framework for legal
gun possession at national and international level
6. Requests better data management at the transnational level and more
efforts to exchange and analyse this data at international forums
7. Urges the defence ministries across the globe to improve on ground
opperational strength between national and international authorities
8. Endorses the need for awareness programs on the adverse effects of
drug use at the basic level
9. Emphasizes the need for medical checkups before employment and
pass a law that makes it illegal to employ people indulging in drug abuse
10. Urges member nations to join forces and forget past mistakes and
conflicts in order to curb terrorism
11. Organize separate governmental agencies to co mbat cyber crime
12. Urges the government to establish certification for ethical hackers
13. Encourages inspection of goods at sea ports and trade hubs all over
the globe
14. Appeals that counterfeiting of currency should be tackled by joint
intelligence ventures and stringent execution of counterfeiting laws
[Link] upon conducting cyber patrols regularly