Home Site Map Contact Us UN Links UN Homepage UNOV Homepage UN News Centre UN Website Locator UN Webcast Latest press releases Advanced Search The United Nations in Vienna Press Releases Issued in Vienna ... Frequently Asked Questions For information only - not an official document. UNIS/GA/1704 28 September 2000 General Committee Recommends Plenary Consideration of Items on Crime Prevention, UN-ECCAS Cooperation NEW YORK, 27 September (UN Headquarters) The General Committee, at its third meeting, this morning recommended the inclusion of the item entitled "Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community of Central African States" on the agenda of the General Assembly's fifty-fifth session. It also recommended that the new item be considered directly in the plenary. In another action, the General Committee recommended that the item entitled "Crime prevention and criminal justice" also be considered directly in plenary. Brunella Borzi Cornacchia (Italy), presenting the request, recalled that the General Assembly had in 1998 established an ad hoc committee to elaborate a comprehensive international convention against transnational organized crime. The committee would meet next month to finalize the text. Italy had offered to host a signing conference in Palermo next December. She was requesting that the agenda item, originally scheduled for consideration by the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), be dealt with directly in the plenary to ensure that action was taken on the adoption of the draft United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its draft protocols. | |
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