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384 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“2. At the request of a State Party that is the receiving State, each State Partyshall, without undue or unreasonable delay, verify whether a person who is a victimof such trafficking is a national of the requested State.“3. In order to facilitate the return of victims of such trafficking who are withoutproper documentation, the State Party of which such a victim is a national or inwhich he or she had the right of abode at the time of entry into the receiving Stateshall agree to issue, at the request of the receiving State, such travel documents orother authorization as may be necessary to enable the person to re-enter its territory.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.3/Rev.3)“Article 6“Return 2 of victims 3 of trafficking in persons“1. Each State Party agrees to facilitate and accept, without delay, 4 the returnof a victim of trafficking in persons 5 who is a national of that State Party or whohad the right of abode 6 in the territory of that State Party at the time of entry intothe receiving State. 7, 8“2. At the request of a State Party that is the receiving State, each State Partyshall, without [undue or unreasonable] 9 delay, verify whether a person who is a victimof such trafficking is a national of the requested State.“3. In order to facilitate the return of victims of such trafficking who are withoutproper documentation, the State Party of which such a victim is a national or inwhich he or she had the right of abode at the time of entry into the receiving State shallagree to issue, at the request of the receiving State, such travel documents or otherauthorization as may be necessary to enable the person to re-enter its territory.” 102At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, some delegations suggested replacing the word “return” with theword “repatriation”.3At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, some delegations suggested that the word “victims” should bereplaced with the words “trafficked persons”.4At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, some delegations suggested deleting the words “without delay”.5At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, some delegations raised concern about who should bear the costassociated with the repatriation of victims.6At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, some delegations stated that there was a need to clarify the term“right of abode”. For example, it was not clear whether it included right to transit or temporary residence. In that context,Mexico suggested replacing the word “had” with the word “has”.7At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, some delegations expressed the view that repatriation of victimsshould be based on consent. Consensus was not reached regarding repatriation of victims in the absence of such consent.In that context, bilateral and multilateral agreements should be encouraged. Some delegations also stated that special considerationshould be given to repatriation of children.8At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Mexico proposed (see A/AC.254/5/Add.12 and Corr.1) new paragraphs1 bis and 1 ter, based on article 19, paragraph 2, of the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons andof the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 96, No. 1342), which were as follows:“1 bis. Each State Party shall agree to facilitate the repatriation of victims of such trafficking who desire to berepatriated or who may be claimed by persons exercising authority over them or whose repatriation is ordered in conformitywith the domestic law of each State.“1 ter. Repatriation shall take place only after agreement is reached with the State of destination as to the identityand nationality of the persons concerned, as well as to the place and date of arrival at frontiers. Each Party tothis Protocol shall facilitate the passage of such persons through its territory.”9At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, it was agreed that the words “undue or unreasonable” should beplaced in brackets.10At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, China suggested adding the following new paragraph after paragraph3 of this article: “3 bis. The receiving State of victims of trafficking shall provide necessary facilities for the returnof victims.”