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6.
Invites Member States to identify areas covered in the Salvador
Declaration where further tools and training manuals based on international
standards and best practices are needed, and to submit that information to the
Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice so that it may take that
information into account when considering potential areas of future activity of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;
Welcomes the decision of the Government of Brazil to contribute a
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percentage of the value of confiscated assets to the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime, pursuant to article 30 of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime 4 and article 62 of the United Nations Convention
against Corruption, 5 as well as paragraph 9 of General Assembly resolution 55/25 of
15 November 2000 and paragraph 4 of Assembly resolution 58/4 of 31 October
2003, and looks forward to expeditious implementation of that decision;
Also welcomes the prompt consideration and action by the Commission
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on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on a number of issues addressed in the
Salvador Declaration, including those addressed in separate resolutions approved by
the Commission at its nineteenth session, such as violence against migrants, migrant
workers and their families, emerging forms of crime that have a significant impact
on the environment and international cooperation in criminal matters;3
9.
Requests the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to
establish, in line with paragraph 42 of the Salvador Declaration, an open-ended
intergovernmental expert group, to be convened prior to the twentieth session of the
Commission, to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of cybercrime and
responses to it by Member States, the international community and the private
sector, including the exchange of information on national legislation, best practices,
technical assistance and international cooperation, with a view to examining options
to strengthen existing and to propose new national and international legal or other
responses to cybercrime;
10. Also requests the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
to establish, in line with paragraph 49 of the Salvador Declaration, an open-ended
intergovernmental expert group, to be convened between the twentieth and
twenty-first sessions of the Commission, to exchange information on best practices,
as well as national legislation and existing international law, and on the revision of
existing United Nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners so
that they reflect recent advances in correctional science and best practices, with a
view to making recommendations to the Commission on possible next steps;
11. Requests the open-ended intergovernmental expert groups established
pursuant to paragraphs 9 and 10 above to report to the Commission on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice on progress in their work;
12. Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, in the
development and implementation of its technical assistance programmes, to aim for
sustainable and long-lasting results in the prevention, prosecution and punishment
of crime, in particular by building, modernizing and strengthening criminal justice
systems, as well as promoting the rule of law, and to design such programmes to
achieve those aims for all components of the criminal justice system, in an
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2349, No. 42146.
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