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review and strengthen domestic legislation to counter trafficking in cultural
property, where appropriate, in accordance with our commitments under
international instruments, including, as appropriate, the Convention on the Means of
Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of
Cultural Property of 1970, 25 and taking into consideration the International
Guidelines for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Responses with Respect to
Trafficking in Cultural Property and Other Related Offences, 26 to continue to gather
and share information and statistical data on trafficking in cultural property, in
particular on trafficking that involves organized criminal groups and terrorist
organizations, and to further consider the potential utility of and improvements to
the model treaty for the prevention of crimes that infringe on the cultural heritage of
peoples in the form of movable property, 27 and international standards and norms in
this field, in close cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
and other competent international organizations, with a view to ensuring
coordination of efforts in fulfilment of their respective mandates;
(d) To conduct further research on the links between urban crime and other
manifestations of organized crime in some countries and regions, including crimes
committed by gangs, as well as to exchange experiences in and information on
effective crime prevention and criminal justice programmes and policies among
Member States and with relevant international and regional organizations, in order
to address through innovative approaches the impact of urban crime and gangrelated violence on specific populations and places, fostering social inclusion and
employment opportunities and aiming at facilitating social reintegration of
adolescents and young adults;
(e) To adopt effective measures to prevent and counter the serious problem
of crimes that have an impact on the environment, such as trafficking in wildlife,
including flora and fauna as protected by the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 28 timber and timber products and
hazardous waste, as well as poaching, by strengthening legislation, international
cooperation, capacity-building, criminal justice responses and law enforcement
efforts aimed at, inter alia, dealing with transnational organized crime, corruption
and money-laundering linked to such crimes;
(f) To ensure that our law enforcement and criminal justice institutions have
the expertise and technical capacities to adequately address these new and emerging
forms of crime, in close cooperation and coordination with one another, and to
provide those institutions with the necessary financial and structural support;
(g) To continue the analysis and exchange of information and practices
relating to other evolving forms of transnational organized crime with varying
impacts at the regional and global levels, with a view to more effectively preventing
and countering crime and strengthening the rule of law. These may include, as
appropriate, smuggling of petroleum and its derivatives, trafficking in precious
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 823, No. 11806.
Resolution 69/196, annex.
27
Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana,
27 August–7 September 1990: report prepared by the Secretariat (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.91.IV.2), chap. I, sect. B.1, annex.
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 993, No. 14537.
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