Int’l confab approves new measures to implement anti-crimes protocols
‘Kuwait contributes to UN-created anti-crime portal Sherloc’
VIENNA, Oct 20, (KUNA): The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime agreed on Friday on a series of measures to implement the convention’s protocols on human trafficking and illegal smuggling of immigrants and arms.
Such measures would boost criminal justice response, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, told reporters after closing of the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
Some 189 member-countries approved the new measures, Fedotov added, noting that the measures would also bolster implementation of antiarms manufacturing protocol and anti-human trafficking protocol as well.
The ninth session, which kicked off on Monday, tackled a wide array of key issues related to organized crimes, including the implementation of the protocol to prevent, suppress, and punish trafficking in persons, particularly women and children.
It also discussed the protocol against smuggling of migrants by land, sea and air; and the protocol against the illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, their parts, components, and ammunition.
Meanwhile, a visiting official of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Justice said the department had contributed with a large number of local and international laws’ copies to the UN Sherloc portal.
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The information and documents have been provided to the site, in line with a previous agreement among member states of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, said Zakariya Al-Ansari, the assistant undersecretary for legal affairs.
He was speaking to KUNA following a meeting with a UN official in charge of the site, on margins of the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
Sherloc portal is a tool that contributes to enhancing international cooperation in legal matters, he said, also noting that the Kuwaiti side held the meeting with the officers in charge of the digital service for affirming the Gulf country commitment to international treaties and robust support for international-regional cooperation in combating transnational crimes.
Participants in the session discussed, over the past five days, strategies for clamping down on organized crimes, such as trade in humans and arms, illegal immigrants’ trafficking and bolstering global cooperation against emerging crimes.