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444 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimeoffences described in this Protocol. The proceeds from such seizure and confiscationshall be used to defray the costs of providing due assistance to the victim, wheredeemed appropriate by States Parties and as agreed by them, 2 in conformity with individualguarantees enshrined in their domestic legislation.”Notes by the Secretariat2. At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, the majority of the delegationssuggested the deletion of the article. At the sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, severaldelegations opposed the deletion of the article in the restructured text proposed byBelgium, Poland and the United States (A/AC.254/5/Add.13). At the informal consultationsheld during the seventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee, discussion on this articlewas deferred pending the finalization of the articles dealing with confiscation (articles 7,7 bis and 7 ter) in the draft convention. At the ninth session of the Ad Hoc Committee,there was general agreement to delete article 5 bis, entitled “Seizure and confiscation ofgains”. It was agreed that the seizure and forfeiture scheme in articles 7, 7 bis and 7 terof the draft convention should apply, mutatis mutandis, to the protocol and that these draftprovisions covered most of the same content. It was decided not to retain text calling foruse of seized proceeds to defray the cost of assistance to victims because this was not consistentwith compromises reached in negotiating the scheme in the draft convention andbecause of the practical and legal implementation problems in many States.Cooperation with non-States partiesArgentina (A/AC.254/8)Negotiation textsFirst session: 19-29 January 1999“Article 6“Special aspects of international cooperation“States Parties shall cooperate with non-States parties in the prevention, suppressionand punishment of illicit international trafficking in women and children andin the protection and care of women and children victims of such unlawful acts.Accordingly, the competent authorities of States Parties shall be required to notifythe competent authorities of a non-State party of cases where, on their territory, thereis a child or woman who is a national of that non-State party and who has been avictim of trafficking in a State Party. States Parties shall inform the Secretary-Generalof the United Nations of the existence of non-governmental organizations devoted tothe prevention of the offences covered by this Agreement, so that a database may beestablished for the purpose of permitting information exchange among these organizationsand States.”2At the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee, Colombia proposed that the phrase “where deemed appropriate byStates Parties and as agreed by them” should be deleted (see A/AC.254/5/Add.12).