A/RES/70/174
Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
trafficking and related criminal activities, and to take steps to reduce the violence
that accompanies drug trafficking;
(m) To continue to explore all options regarding an appropriate and effective
mechanism or mechanisms to assist the Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime in the review of the
implementation of the Convention and the Protocols thereto in an effective and
efficient manner;
(n) To invite Member States to draw on the United Nations model treaties on
international cooperation in criminal matters when considering developing
agreements with other States, bearing in mind their value as important tools for the
development of international cooperation, and to invite the Commission on Crime
Prevention and Criminal Justice to continue its initiative to identify United Nations
model treaties that may need to be updated, based on inputs received from Member
States.
9.
We endeavour to ensure that the benefits of economic, social and
technological advancements become a positive force to enhance our efforts in
preventing and countering new and emerging forms of crime. We recognize our
responsibility to adequately respond to emerging and evolving threats posed by such
crimes. Therefore, we strive:
(a) To develop and implement comprehensive crime prevention and criminal
justice responses, including strengthening of the capacities of our judiciary and law
enforcement institutions, and to adopt, when necessary, legislative and
administrative measures to effectively prevent and counter new, emerging and
evolving forms of crime at the national, regional and international levels, taking into
account the scope of application of the United Nations Convention against
Transnational Organized Crime with regard to “serious crimes”, in accordance with
national legislation;
(b) To explore specific measures designed to create a secure and resilient
cyberenvironment, to prevent and counter criminal activities carried out over the
Internet, paying particular attention to identity theft, recruitment for the purpose of
trafficking in persons and protecting children from online exploitation and abuse, to
strengthen law enforcement cooperation at the national and international levels,
including with the aim of identifying and protecting victims by, inter alia, removing
child pornography, in particular child sexual abuse imagery, from the Internet, to
enhance the security of computer networks and protect the integrity of relevant
infrastructure, and to endeavour to provide long-term technical assistance and
capacity-building to strengthen the ability of national authorities to deal with
cybercrime, including the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of
such crime in all its forms. In addition, we note the activities of the open-ended
intergovernmental expert group to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of
cybercrime and responses to it by Member States, the international community and
the private sector, and invite the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice to consider recommending that the expert group continue, based on its work,
to exchange information on national legislation, best practices, technical assistance
and international cooperation, with a view to examining options to strengthen
existing responses and to propose new national and international legal or other
responses to cybercrime;
(c) To strengthen and implement comprehensive crime prevention and
criminal justice responses to illicit trafficking in cultural property, for the purpose of
providing the widest possible international cooperation to address such crime, to
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