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Part One. Article 37 301agreements in force between States Parties. The other provisions of this Conventionshall prevail over those provisions which deal with the same questions in other conventionsalready concluded under the auspices of the United Nations.“2. States Parties may apply article[s] [...] of this Convention to other multilateralconventions to the extent agreed to by States Parties. 8“3. States Parties may conclude bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangementswith a view to facilitating the application of the principles and procedures ofthis Convention.“4. States Parties may conclude bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangementsfor the application of one or more provisions of this Convention to other formsof criminal behaviour.”Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999Notes by the Secretariat6. The version of article 24 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.2 remained thesame in the intermediate drafts of the convention (A/AC.254/4/Revs.3-5).France (A/AC.254/L.123)“Article 24“Relation with other conventions“1. This Convention does not affect the rights and undertakings derived frominternational multilateral conventions concerning special matters.“2. States Parties to the Convention may conclude bilateral or multilateralagreements with one another on the matters dealt with in this Convention, for purposesof supplementing or strengthening its provisions or facilitating the applicationof the principles embodied in it.“3. If two or more Parties have already concluded an agreement or treaty inrespect of a subject that is dealt with in this Convention or otherwise have establishedtheir relations in respect to that subject, they shall be entitled to apply thatagreement or treaty or to regulate those relations accordingly, in lieu of the presentConvention, if it facilitates international cooperation. 9“4. States Parties may conclude bilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangementsfor the application of one or more provisions of this Convention to other formsof criminal behaviour.” 108This paragraph was originally paragraph 10 of article 2 and was moved to article 24 pursuant to a proposal by somedelegations at the second session of the Ad Hoc Committee.9Paragraphs 1 to 3 were based on article 39 of the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation ofthe Proceeds from Crime of 1990 of the Council of Europe (European Treaty Series, No. 141).10This paragraph appeared as paragraph 4 of option 4 of article 24 in the text of the draft convention contained indocument A/AC.254/4/Rev.5.