Technical assistance provided by the United Nations Office
on Drugs and Crime related to counter-terrorism
A/RES/74/175
role of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as the Chair of the Working
Group on Criminal Justice, Legal Responses and Countering the Financing of
Terrorism,
Recognizing the important role that parliaments can play in preventing and
countering terrorism and addressing conditions conducive to terrorism, and
recognizing also the relevance of the partnership established between the Inter Parliamentary Union, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office
of Counter-Terrorism in that regard,
Welcoming guidance by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on the
issue of children affected by terrorism, including guidance on the prevention of the
involvement of children with terrorist groups and on the rehabilitation and
reintegration of those children, provided in the Handbook on Children Recruited and
Exploited by Terrorist and Violent Extremist Groups: the Role of the Justice System
and its three related training manuals,
Noting that Member States may face challenges in obtaining and using
admissible evidence, including digital, physical and forensic evidence, including in
areas affected by armed conflicts, that can be used to help prosecute and secure the
convictions of foreign terrorist fighters and those supporting foreign terrorist fighters,
1.
Urges Member States that have not yet done so to consider becoming
parties to the existing international conventions and protocols related to counter terrorism, and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its
mandate and in close coordination with the relevant entities of the United Nations
Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact, to continue to provide technical
assistance to Member States, upon request, for the ratification and legislative
incorporation of those international legal instruments;
2.
Encourages Member States to consider ratifying or acceding to other
relevant conventions to support international cooperation in criminal matters, such as
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the
Protocols thereto, 6 and calls upon Member States to implement effectively the
instruments to which they are party;
3.
Also encourages Member States to continue to promote, consistent with
their legal frameworks, effective coordination among law enforcement and other
relevant entities and authorities responsible for preventing and countering terrorism,
and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, upon request and within
its mandate, to continue to provide technical assistance in that regard;
4.
Calls upon Member States to continue to strengthen international
coordination and cooperation in order to prevent and counter terrorism in all its forms
and manifestations in accordance with international law, including the Charter of the
United Nations, to effectively implement relevant international instruments and
United Nations resolutions, to consider entering, when appropriate, into treaties on
extradition and mutual legal assistance, to enable the effective exchange of relevant
financial intelligence and to ensure adequate training of all relevant personnel on
executing international cooperation activities;
5.
Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, within its
mandate, to provide technical assistance, upon request, to Member States to those
ends, including by continuing and enhancing its assistance related to international
legal and judicial cooperation pertaining to countering terrorism, including in
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