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Cooperation Between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)

A/RES/71/19No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 126Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2016–2024
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/136
  • 2024A/RES/79/136Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)LatestCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/20Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)Compare with previous version
  • 2020A/RES/75/10Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)Compare with previous version
  • 2018A/RES/73/11Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)Compare with previous version
  • 2016A/RES/71/19Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
Cooperation Between OrganizationsLaw EnforcementTransnational Crime

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs
1
Calls for the strengthening of cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), within their respective mandates, in tackling terrorism, including preventing foreign terrorist fighter travel, and combating transnational crime, in particular transnational organized crime, including smuggling of migrants, trafficking in persons, drug trafficking, intentional and unlawful destruction of cultural heritage and trafficking in cultural property, piracy, illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, illicit trafficking in nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological materials, cybercrime, corruption and money-laundering and crimes that affect the environment, such as illicit trafficking in wildlife;
2
Emphasizes the importance of optimal coordination and cooperation between the United Nations and INTERPOL to create synergies within their respective mandates in the fight against transnational crime, in particular transnational organized crime;
3
Encourages increased cooperation between the United Nations and INTERPOL to assist Member States, upon their request, in effectively using the following resources readily available to Member States that are also member countries of INTERPOL, through their national central bureaux:
a
The INTERPOL I-24/7 global police secure communications system, which enables authorized users to share sensitive and urgent police information with their counterparts around the globe;
b
INTERPOL databases, by populating them, as appropriate, with a view to sharing information with foreign counterparts in full respect of national sovereignty and operational priorities, through full access to them;
c
Publication of INTERPOL notices and diffusions to alert and request assistance from foreign law enforcement;
d
Criminal information analysis, namely, INTERPOL analytical products, to support national operational activities and investigations;
e
INTERPOL training and capacity-building programmes and initiatives designed to improve national police capabilities;
4
Acknowledges the importance of extending real-time access to the I-24/7 global police secure communications system from the national central bureaux of Member States that are also member countries of INTERPOL to their other national law enforcement entities at strategic locations, such as border crossings, airports and customs and immigration posts, with a view to, inter alia, promoting increased cooperation between the United Nations and INTERPOL;
5
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;
6
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations”, a sub-item entitled “Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)”.

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