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SOC/CP/279/Rev.1
26/01/2004
Press Release
SOC/CP/279/Rev.1


KHARTOUM DECLARATION ON TERRORISM AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME’


ADOPTED AT UNODCWORKSHOP IN SUDAN


VIENNA, 23 January (UN InformationService) -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and theGovernment of the Sudan jointly organized a workshop on“International Cooperation on Counter-Terrorism and the Fight against Transnational Organized Crime”, held from 17 to 19 January 2004,in Khartoum, Sudan.

SOC/CP/273
09/12/2003
Press Release
SOC/CP/273


COUNTRIES GATHER TO SIGN ON TO TOUGH NEW TREATY AGAINST CORRUPTION,


BEGINNING 9 DECEMBER IN MÉRIDA, MEXICO


(Reissued as received)


MÉRIDA, MEXICO, 8 December (UN Department of Public Information) -- More than 120 governments, most of them represented at the ministerial level, will meet in the southern Mexican city of Mérida for a signing conference for the first legally binding international agreement to attack corruption.

SG/SM/8977-GA/10200-SOC/CP/271
31/10/2003
Press Release
SG/SM/8977
GA/10200
SOC/CP/271


SECRETARY-GENERAL LAUDS ADOPTION BY GENERAL ASSEMBLY


OF UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION


New Instrument Described as New Framework for Action against ‘Insidious Plague’


This is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan today on the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Convention against Corruption: