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744 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“3. Urges all States to sign and ratify the Convention [and the protocols thereto]2 as soon as possible in order to ensure the speedy entry into force of the Convention[and the protocols thereto] 2 ;“[4. Decides that, until the Conference of the Parties to the Convention establishedpursuant to the Convention decides otherwise, the account referred to in article21 bis of the Convention will be operated within the United Nations CrimePrevention and Criminal Justice Fund, and encourages Member States to begin makingadequate voluntary contributions to the above-mentioned account for the provisionto developing countries and countries with economies in transition of thetechnical assistance that they might require for [preparation for the ratification of theConvention and] implementation of the Convention and the protocols thereto, includingfor the measures needed for that implementation]; 1“[5. Decides also that the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of aConvention against Transnational Organized Crime will complete its tasks arisingfrom the elaboration of the Convention by holding a meeting well before the conveningof the first session of the Conference of the Parties, in order to prepare thedraft text of the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties and other rulesdescribed in article 23, paragraph 2, of the Convention, which will be communicatedto the Conference of the Parties [at its first session] for consideration and action;] 3“6. Requests the Secretary-General to designate the Centre for InternationalCrime Prevention of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention of theSecretariat to serve as the secretariat for and under the direction of 4 the Conferenceof the Parties;“7. Also requests the Secretary-General to provide the Centre for InternationalCrime Prevention with the resources necessary to enable it to promote in an effectivemanner the expeditious entry into force of the Convention and to discharge thefunctions of secretariat of the Conference of the Parties [and to support the Ad HocCommittee in its work pursuant to paragraph 5 above] 2 .”Amendments to the draft resolution (A/AC.254/L.224) submitted by Egypt(A/AC.254/L.232)1. Egypt proposed adding the following paragraphs after the fourth preambularparagraph:“Recalling the Naples Political Declaration and Global Action Plan againstOrganized Transnational Crime, adopted by the World Ministerial Conferenceon Organized Transnational Crime, held in Naples, Italy, from 21 to 23 November1994, 5 resolution 4 on the links between terrorist crimes and transnational organizedcrime, adopted by the Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention ofCrime and the Treatment of Offenders, held in Cairo from 29 April to 8 May1995, 6 and the Vienna Declaration on Crime and Justice: Meeting the Challenges3Proposal submitted by China (see A/AC.254/L.228).4The European Union proposed that the words “at the direction of” should be replaced by the words “under the directionof” (see A/AC.254/L.231).5See A/49/748, annex.6See A/CONF.169/16.