A/RES/73/191
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 109
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 17 December 2018
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/73/590)]
73/191.
Special session of the General Assembly against corruption
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/205 of 22 December 1999, 55/61 of 4 December
2000, 55/188 of 20 December 2000, 56/186 of 21 December 2001 and 57/244 of
20 December 2002, and recalling also its resolutions 58/205 of 23 December 2003,
59/242 of 22 December 2004, 60/207 of 22 December 2005, 61/209 of 20 December
2006, 62/202 of 19 December 2007, 63/226 of 19 December 2008, 64/237 of
24 December 2009, 65/169 of 20 December 2010, 67/189 and 67/192 of 20 December
2012, 68/195 of 18 December 2013, 69/199 of 18 December 2014 and 71/208 of
19 December 2016, and all relevant Human Rights Council resolutions, including
resolutions 23/9 of 13 June 2013, 1 29/11 of 2 July 2015 2 and 35/25 of 23 June 2017, 3
Recalling also the entry into force on 14 December 2005 of the United Nations
Convention against Corruption, 4 which is the most comprehensive and universal
instrument on corruption, recognizing the need to continue to promote its ratification
or accession thereto and its effective implementation, and acknowledging all relevant
regional political declarations of Member States against corruption,
Stressing that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 5 addresses the
need to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide
access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at
all levels, and concerned about the seriousness of the problems and threats to the
stability and security of societies posed by corruption, which undermine the
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See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/68/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/70/53), chap. V, sect. A.
Ibid., Seventy-second Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/72/53), chap. V, sect. A.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2349, No. 42146.
Resolution 70/1.
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