Un Crime Conference Ends Successfully

UN crime conference ends successfully

BANGKOK: -- The 11th UN Congress on Crime Suppression and Criminal Justice ended successfully on Monday, with the adoption of the 'Bangkok Declaration' by international delegates.

The 35-point Bangkok Declaration include a call for the UN member states to join forces and support in the fight against crime of all forms, namely organized crime, transnational crime, economic crime, fibre crime, corruption, terrorism, human trafficking, human organs trade, animal and indigenous plants trade, cultural assets trade, documentary frauds and money laundering.

It also calls for cooperation from all countries in extradition of culprits and information exchanges through an international centre for crime prevention and criminal cooperation, as well as in financial and technical support to developing countries for their prevention and management of crime of all forms, and in the establishment of an international fund to assist crime and terrorists' victims and

protect witnesses of criminal cases.

Thailand's six proposed issues were also included in the Bangkok Declaration.

They include international cooperation in human and drug trafficking, solutions to cultural assets trade, adoption of reconcilatory justice, endorsement of the sufficiency economy principle, initated by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, and improved standards of prisons.

--TNA 2005-04-25