UNITED NATIONS TRAINING SEMINAR ON CRIME CONTROL TO BE HELD IN C+TE D'IVOIRE, 15-26 SEPTEMBER
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SOC/CP/199
UNITED NATIONS TRAINING SEMINAR ON CRIME CONTROL TO BE HELD IN CÔTE D'IVOIRE, 15-26 SEPTEMBER
19970912 VIENNA, 11 September (UN Information Service) -- The growing problems of organized transnational crime and drug-related crime in west Africa will be the focus of a United Nations training seminar, to be held in Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, from 15 to 26 September.The seminar is organized jointly by the Vienna-based United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division and the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) is expected to bring together two experts from each of the member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as drug control and criminal justice resource persons. The aim is to improve justice professionals' knowledge and understanding of the relevant regional and international conventions and to strengthen States' capacity to tackle new developments in transnational crime.
The countries of the subregion were asked to select one participant experienced with extradition and mutual assistance projects and one involved in drug law enforcement. The organizers want all nominees to be in a position to follow up on suggestions or recommendations made during the seminar.
Resource persons will include United Nations drug control and criminal justice specialists along with representatives of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol), the African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, and the ECOWAS Secretariat.
Participants will explore a range of issues involving transborder criminal investigations and prosecutions, particularly with regard to drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and fraud, and will look at a number of case studies and remedies.
The members of ECOWAS are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
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