GA/9780/

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PLENARY CONSIDERATION OF ITEMS ON CRIME PREVENTION, UN-ECCAS COOPERATION

CORRECTION

In Press Release GA/9780 of 27 September, paragraphs 1 and 2 on page 1 should be read as follows:

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 and its related protocols. The committee would meet next month to finalize the text of the protocols. Italy had offered to host a signing conference in Palermo next December. She requested that the agenda item, originally scheduled for consideration by the Third Committee, also be dealt with directly in the plenary for the sole purpose of taking action on the draft convention against transnational crime and the draft protocols thereto.

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*Reissued to reflect speaker�s language.

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