| Press Release SOC/CP/278 |
ITALY, NIGERIA TAKE ACTION AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
Italian Anti-Mafia Bureau and Nigerian
Attorney General Sign “Memorandum of Understanding” in Rome
(Reissued as received)
| Press Release SOC/CP/277 |
TOP SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN OFFICIALS MEET TO DISCUSS LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND ANTI-TRAFFICKING STRATEGIES
(Reissued as received.)
| 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.
| Press Release SG/SM/9065 L/T/4376 SOC/CP/274 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES FULL ENFORCEMENT OF NEW MERIDA CONVENTION,
SEEN AS MAJOR VICTORY IN STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION
| Press Release SOC/CP/272 |
UNITED NATIONS PROMOTES ACTION TO PREVENT AND COUNTER TRAFFICKING
IN HUMAN BEINGS FROM NIGERIA INTO ITALY
UN Assists Nigeria and Italy in Signing “Memorandum of Cooperation”
(Reissued as received.)
| 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:
| Press Release SOC/CP/270 |
CONSENSUS REACHED ON UN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION
High-Level Signing Conference Planned for December in Mérida, Mexico
(Reissued as received.)
| Press Release SG/SM/8910 SOC/CP/269 |
SECRETARY-GENERAL CONGRATULATES AD HOC COMMITTEE ON SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION
OF NEGOTIATIONS ON UN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION
| Press Release IK/384 SOC/CP/268 |
ORGANIZED CRIME TO BE GROWING PROBLEM IN IRAQ,
UNODC FACT-FINDING MISSION REPORTS
(Reissued as received.)
VIENNA, 27 August (UN Information Service) -- A four-member team from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently returned from a two-week fact-finding mission in Iraq.
| Press Release SOC/CP/267* |
CORRUPTION CONVENTION TALKS TO CONTINUE IN SEPTEMBER
(Reissued as received.)
VIENNA, 11 August (UN Information Service) -- Major breakthroughs were achieved during the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention against Corruption, held in Vienna from 21 July to 9 August, including an agreement on the recovery of assets resulting from corruption and on a broad scope of preventive measures.
