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Part Five. General Assembly resolution 55/25 743“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 that work in order tocomplete it in 2000,“Recalling further its resolution 54/129 of 17 December 1999, in which it acceptedwith appreciation the offer of the Government of Italy to host a high-level politicalsigning conference in Palermo for the purpose of signing the United NationsConvention against Transnational Organized Crime (Palermo Convention) and theprotocols thereto, and requested the Secretary-General to schedule the conference fora period of up to one week before the end of the Millennium Assembly in 2000,“Expressing its appreciation to the Government of Poland for submitting a firstdraft of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to itat its fifty-first session and for hosting the meeting of the open-ended intergovernmentalgroup of experts established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 52/85of 12 December 1997 in Warsaw in February 1998,“Expressing its appreciation also to the Government of Argentina for hostingthe informal preparatory meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of aConvention against Transnational Organized Crime in Buenos Aires in August 1998,“[Deeply concerned by the negative economic and social impact of the activitiesof transnational organized crime [in all its manifestations and taking into accountthe links that exist between these and other illegal activities], and convinced of theurgent need to strengthen cooperation to prevent and combat such activities moreeffectively at the national, regional and international levels,] 1“1. Takes note [with appreciation] of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee onthe Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime[, which carriedout its work at the headquarters of the Office for Drug Control and CrimePrevention of the Secretariat in Vienna,] 2 submitting the text of the draft UnitedNations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to the General Assemblyfor its consideration and action, [and commends the Ad Hoc Committee for its work];“2. Adopts the United Nations Convention against Transnational OrganizedCrime [and the protocols thereto] 2 annexed to the present resolution, and opens it forsignature at the high-level political signing conference, to be held in Palermo from11 to 15 December 2000, in accordance with resolution 54/129;1Based on a proposal submitted by the European Union (see A/AC.254/L.231).2Proposal submitted by the European Union (see A/AC.254/L.231).