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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 126 Cooperation 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

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/136	Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)	4,051	82%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/20	Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)	3,648	71%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/10	Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)	2,754	74%Compare
2018	A/RES/73/11	Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)	2,038	38%Compare
2016	A/RES/71/19	Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)	977	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations Law Enforcement Transnational Crime

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

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;

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;

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:

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;

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;

Publication of INTERPOL notices and diffusions to alert and request assistance from foreign law enforcement;

Criminal information analysis, namely, INTERPOL analytical products, to support national operational activities and investigations;

INTERPOL training and capacity-building programmes and initiatives designed to improve national police capabilities;

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;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

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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