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General Assembly Distr.: General Fifty-Seventh Session 4 November 2002 United Nations A/C.3/57/SR.15 General Assembly Distr.: General Fifty-seventh session 4 November 2002 Official Records Original: English Third Committee Summary record of the 15th meeting Held at Headquarters, New York, on Thursday, 10 October 2002, at 3 p.m. Chairman:Mr. Wenaweser............................................ (Liechtenstein) later: Ms. Ahmed (Vice-Chairman) .......................................(Sudan) Contents Agenda item 100: Crime prevention and criminal justice (continued)* Agenda item 101: International drug control (continued)* Agenda item 102: Advancement of women (continued)** Agenda item 103: Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (continued)** * ** __________________ * Items which the Committee has decided to consider together. ** Items which the Committee has decided to consider together. This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned within one week of the date of publication to the Chief of the Official Records Editing Section, room DC2-750, 2 United Nations Plaza, and incorporated in a copy of the record. Corrections will be issued after the end of the session, in a separate corrigendum for each Committee. 02-62978 (E) *0262978* A/C.3/57/SR.15 The meeting was called to order at 3.10 p.m. delete the final sentence of the paragraph 7 of document A/C.3/57/L.11. Therefore there were no programme budget implications in connection with the Agenda item 100: Crime prevention and criminal draft resolution. justice (continued) (A/C.3/57/L.2-L.5, L.8 and L.10) 5. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.3 was adopted. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.2 entitled “International 6. Mr. De Alba (Mexico) said that his Government cooperation in the fight against transnational organized welcomed the adoption of the draft resolution and the crime: assistance to States in capacity-building with a progress made to date by the Ad Hoc Committee. From view to facilitating the implementation of the United the outset, his delegation had taken an active part in the Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Committee’s work and had submitted various proposals Crime and the protocols thereto” designed to move negotiations forward. 1. Mr. De Barros (Secretary of the Committee) said 7. Mexico was committed to fighting against that, in paragraph 6 of draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.2, corruption at both the domestic and international the Secretary-General was requested to “continue to levels, thereby promoting increased transparency, provide the Centre for International Crime Prevention democracy and governmental responsibility. with the resources necessary to enable it to promote, in an effective manner, the entry into force and 8. He assured the Committee that Mexico would implementation of the Convention and the Protocols collaborate closely with the Centre for International thereto”. In that connection, it should be recalled that Crime Prevention with a view to submitting proposals General Assembly resolution 56/254 had approved the concerning the organization of the high-level political appropriation of $5,733,800 for the biennium 2002- conference and to providing delegations with the 2003 under section 14, Crime prevention and criminal opportunity to discuss the various aspects of the justice, to provide, in particular, for the establishment convention. of three new Professional posts and one new General Service post in order to carry out the mandates on the Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.4 entitled “Follow-up to promotion of the ratification and implementation of the the plans of action for the implementation of the Vienna Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty-first century” 2. The requirements for the work of the Centre for International Crime Prevention for the biennium 2004- 9. The Chairman informed the Committee that the 2005 in connection with the implementation of the draft resolution contained no programme budget Convention against Transnational Organized Crime implications. would be included in the proposed programme budget 10. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.4 was adopted. for 2004-2005, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session in 2003. In that Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.5 entitled “Preparations connection, the attention of the Committee was drawn for the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime to the provisions of General Assembly resolution Prevention and Criminal Justice” 45/248, part B, section VI. The Controller and his staff were ready to provide the Committee with all relevant 11. Mr. De Barros (Secretary of the Committee) said information regarding those procedures. that, in paragraph 6 of A/C.3/57/L.5, the General Assembly would request the Secretary-General to 3. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.2 was adopted. prepare, in cooperation with the institutes of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.3 entitled “High-level Programme network, a discussion guide for the political conference for the purpose of signing the regional preparatory meetings for the Eleventh United Nations convention against corruption” and its Congress for the consideration of the Commission, and programme budget implications in document invited Member States to be actively involved in that A/C.3/57/L.11 process. In that connection, the Secretariat would be 4. Mr. De Barros (Secretary of the Committee) said preparing a discussion guide for the regional that he had been authorized by the Budget Division to preparatory meetings during the biennium 2002-2003, 2 A/C.3/57/SR.15 which would cost $34,400 and would fall within the to take all necessary measures and provide adequate framework of the resources available under section 14 support to the Centre so as to enable it to promote the of the programme budget. speedy entry into force of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, including the organization of a treaty 12. In paragraph 11 of the draft resolution, the event, in cooperation with the Office of Legal Affairs, General Assembly would reiterate its request to the in 2003. Assuming that the treaty event would be held Secretary-General to provide the Centre for in New York, no additional resources would be International Crime Prevention with the necessary required during the biennium 2002-2003. resources, within the overall appropriations of the programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003, for the 18. Ms. Borzi Cornacchia (Italy) announced that preparations for the Eleventh United Nations Congress Belarus, Colombia, Croatia, the Democratic Republic on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and to of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, ensure that adequate resources were provided in the Guatemala, Iceland, Japan, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005 to Peru, the Republic of Moldova, Sri Lanka, Suriname support the holding of the Eleventh Congress. In that and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia also connection, the Secretariat wished to draw the attention wished to sponsor the draft resolution. of the Committee to the provisions of General 19. The Chairman announced that Benin, Bolivia, Assembly resolution 45/248, part B, section VI. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, 13. In paragraph 12, the General Assembly would Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Venezuela, request the Secretary-General to make available the Zambia and Zimbabwe also wished to sponsor the draft necessary resources for the participation of the least resolution. developed countries in the regional preparatory 20. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.10 was adopted. meetings for the Eleventh Congress and in the Eleventh Congress itself, in accordance with past practice. In 21. Mr. Ahluwalia (India) said that the Secretary- that connection, it should be noted that the travel General’s report on strengthening the Terrorism expenses of one representative from each of the least Prevention Branch of the Secretariat (A/57/152) had developed countries to the Congress and to the regional been considered by the Fifth Committee under agenda preparatory meeting held in the region to which each of item 112. An addendum to that document contained the those countries belonged would be included in the Chairman’s closing summary of proceedings of the proposed programme budget for 2004-2005. symposium entitled “Combating International Terrorism: the Contribution of the United Nations”, 14. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.5 was adopted. held in Vienna on 3 and 4 June 2002. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.8 entitled “United Nations 22. At an intersessional meeting of the Commission African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held on 12 Treatment of Offenders” July 2002, it had been agreed that the summary would be considered in informal consultations between the 15. The Chairman informed the Committee that the Secretariat and the concerned States and that a draft resolution contained no programme budget consensus text would be transmitted to the Secretariat implications and announced that the former Yugoslav in New York for issue. However, the summary had Republic of Macedonia wished to join the sponsors. been erroneously transmitted to New York and 16. Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.8 was adopted. although a corrigendum had been promised it had not yet appeared. Therefore, India wished to disssociate Draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.10 entitled “Strengthening itself from paragraph 5 of A/57/152 and paragraph 28 the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal of A/57/153 until the corrigendum was issued. Justice Programme, in particular its technical Nevertheless, his delegation wished to reiterate its firm cooperation capacity” support for the activities of the Centre for International Crime Prevention, in particular the Terrorism 17.
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