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Part One. Article 3 27“[2. This Convention shall not apply where the offence is committed within asingle State, all members of the criminal group are nationals of that State and thevictims are nationals or entities of that State, except that the provisions of articlesconcerning judicial assistance may, as appropriate, apply where the offence is seriousand of an organized nature.] 23“3. States Parties shall carry out their obligations under this Convention in amanner consistent with the principles of sovereign equality and territorial integrity ofStates and that of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other States.“4. [Nothing in this Convention entitles a State Party to] 24 [A State Party shallnot] 25 undertake in the territory of another State the exercise of jurisdiction and performanceof functions that are reserved exclusively for the authorities of that otherState by its domestic law.[Paragraphs moved]” 26Seventh session: 17-28 January 2000Notes by the Secretariat2. The version of article 2 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.2 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the convention (A/AC.254/4/Revs.3-6).France (A/AC.254/L.132)“Article 2“Scope of application“1. The Convention shall, except as otherwise provided herein, apply to theprevention and suppression:“(a)Of serious crime, as defined in article 2 bis;23This paragraph was previously an option for paragraph 5 of this article. It was retained in brackets pending a decisionon the retention of the bracketed word “transnational” in paragraph 1. Mexico proposed the following formulation: “Thepresent Convention shall not apply if the offence is committed within a single State, if all members of the criminal groupare nationals of or have substantial links with that State, if all victims are nationals or entities of that State and if the effectsof the offence are produced only in that State [with the proviso that the provisions of the articles concerning judicial assistancemay, as appropriate, apply where the offence is serious and of an organized nature].” Mexico specified that the inclusionof the part of the sentence in brackets would depend on the definition of serious crime. Oman suggested that the words“all members of the criminal group” should be replaced with the words “all or one of the members of the criminal group”to ensure that the presence of a foreign element in the offence would not constitute a transnational crime.24This language is derived from article 18 of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings(General Assembly resolution 52/164, annex). One delegation suggested that article 19, paragraph 1, of the same Conventionmight also be relevant in this regard.25This language is derived from the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs andPsychotropic Substances of 1988.26Pursuant to a decision of the Ad Hoc Committee at its second session, the provision on the relationship betweenthe convention and the protocols thereto is dealt with in article 26 bis.