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integrated way and with a long-term perspective, increasing the capacity of
requesting States to prevent and suppress the various types of crime affecting
societies, including organized crime and cybercrime;
13. Also requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to continue
to provide technical assistance to facilitate the ratification and implementation of
the United Nations Convention against Corruption, the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and the international instruments related to
the prevention and suppression of terrorism;
14. Requests the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to
consider at its twentieth session options to improve the efficiency of the process
involved in the United Nations congresses on crime prevention and criminal justice,
taking into account the recommendations made by the Intergovernmental Group of
Experts on Lessons Learned from United Nations Congresses on Crime Prevention
and Criminal Justice at its meeting, held in Bangkok from 15 to 18 August 2006; 6
15. Requests the Secretary-General to distribute the report of the Twelfth
Congress, including the Salvador Declaration, to Member States, intergovernmental
organizations and non-governmental organizations, so as to ensure that the
recommendations of the Congress are disseminated as widely as possible, and to
seek proposals by Member States for ways and means of ensuring appropriate
follow-up to the Salvador Declaration for consideration and action by the
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice at its twentieth session;
16. Welcomes with appreciation the offer of the Government of Qatar to act
as host to the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and
Criminal Justice, in 2015;
17. Expresses its profound gratitude to the people and Government of Brazil
for the warm and generous hospitality extended to the participants in the Twelfth
Congress and for the excellent facilities provided for the Congress;
18. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
sixty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.
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Annex
Salvador Declaration on Comprehensive Strategies for Global Challenges:
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and Their Development
in a Changing World
We, the States Members of the United Nations,
Having assembled at the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice in Salvador, Brazil, from 12 to 19 April 2010, 7 to
take more effective concerted action, in a spirit of cooperation, to prevent, prosecute
and punish crime and seek justice,
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See E/CN.15/2007/6.
In line with resolutions 46/152, 56/119, 62/173, 63/193 and 64/180.