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Article 25.Assistance to and protection of victimsA. Negotiation textsRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.5)Fifth session: 4-15 October 1999“Article 18 bis“Protection of victims 1“1. States Parties shall take [appropriate] measures [within their means] to provideassistance to victims of offences covered by this Convention.“2. States Parties shall establish procedures to provide access to appropriatecompensation for victims of offences covered by this Convention.“3. States Parties shall, subject to their domestic laws, enable views and concernsof victims to be presented and considered at appropriate stages of the criminalproceedings against the offenders in a manner not prejudicial to the rights of the defence.“4. The provisions of article 18 of this Convention shall apply also to victimsin so far as they are witnesses.”Seventh session: 17-28 January 2000Notes by the Secretariat1. Delegations based their comments on the text of article 18 bis of the revised draftconvention contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.6, which was the same as that containedin document A/AC.254/4/Rev.5.1The text of this article, which replaces former paragraph 4 of article 18, was proposed by the Chairman of the AdHoc Committee at its fifth session and was accepted as the basis for further work.2The text of this article was provisionally approved at the informal consultations held during the seventh session ofthe Ad Hoc Committee and recommended by the Chairmen of the informal consultations as the basis for the considerationand approval of the article by the Ad Hoc Committee at its eighth session.223