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General Assembly resolution 55/25of 15 November 2000A. Negotiation textsTenth session: 17-28 July 2000Draft resolution submitted by the Chairman (A/AC.254/L.224)“United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“The General Assembly,“Recalling its resolution 53/111 of 9 December 1998, by which it established anopen-ended intergovernmental ad hoc committee for the purpose of elaborating a comprehensiveinternational convention against transnational organized crime and of discussingthe elaboration, as appropriate, of international instruments addressingtrafficking in women and children, combating the illicit manufacturing of and traffickingin firearms, their parts and components and ammunition, and illegal traffickingin and transporting of migrants, including by sea,“Recalling also its resolution 54/126 of 17 December 1999, in which it requestedthe Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against TransnationalOrganized Crime to continue its work, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions53/111 and 53/114 of 9 December 1998, and to intensify its work in order tocomplete it in 2000,“Recalling further its resolution 54/129 of 17 December 1999, in which theGeneral Assembly accepted with appreciation the offer of the Government of Italyto host a high-level political signing conference in Palermo for the purpose of signingthe United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (PalermoConvention) and the protocols thereto, and requested the Secretary-General to schedulethe Conference for a period of up to one week before the end of the MillenniumAssembly in 2000,“Expressing its appreciation to the Government of Poland for submitting a firstdraft of the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to the GeneralAssembly at its fifty-first session and for hosting the meeting of the open-ended intergovernmentalgroup of experts established pursuant to General Assembly resolution52/85 of 12 December 1997 in Warsaw in February 1998,“Expressing its appreciation to the Government of Argentina for hosting theinformal preparatory meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of the741