Civil Georgia
April 29 2005

ELEVENTH UNITED NATIONS CONGRESS ON CRIME PREVENTION WRAPPED ITS
SESSON
[April 29, 2005, 15:59:24]

Greatly concerned by the expansion and dimensions of transnational
organized cime, terrorism and any existing links between them and by
the increasing sophistication and diversification of the activities
of organized criminal groups, the Eleventh United Nations Congress on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on April 25 unanimously adopted
the `Bangkok Declaration’, addressing those matters, as well as
issues such as trafficking in human beings, money-laundering,
corruption, `cybercrime’, restorative justice, and the root causes of
crime.

According to that Declaration, entitled `Synergies and Responses:
Strategic Alliances in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice’, Member
States reaffirmed their readiness to seek to improve international
cooperation in the fight against crime and terrorism at the
multilateral, regional and bilateral levels, in areas including
extradition and mutual legal assistance. They also sought to ensure
national capacity to engage in international cooperation, in
particular in the prevention, investigation, prosecution and
adjudication of transnational organized crime and terrorism and in
discovering any existing links between them.

The Congress also called on all States that had not yet done so to
ratify and implement the provisions of the United Nations Convention
against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols and the
United Nations Convention against Corruption. It further called upon
donor States and financial institutions to continue to make adequate
voluntary contributions for the provision of technical assistance to
developing countries and countries with economies in transition in
order to help them build capacity to prevent and tackle crime, to
apply the United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and
criminal justice and implement the aforementioned conventions and the
international drug control conventions.

The Azerbaijani delegation led by minister of justice Fikret Mammadov
has partake in the session. Speaking at the Congress Fikret Mammadov
has informed on crime prevention in Azerbaijan, fighting drug
trafficking and corruption. He has also talks about the Armenian
terrorism and it’s terror act against Azerbaijan’s population, as
well as aggression by Armenia in result which had been occupying 20
percent of Azerbaijan’s territories and about violation of
Azerbaijani refugee’s rights by the aggressor.

Text of minister’s speech was disseminated amongst the Congress
participants.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress