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748 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“7. Recommends that the Ad Hoc Committee established by the GeneralAssembly in its resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, which is beginning its deliberationswith a view to developing a comprehensive convention on international terrorism,pursuant to Assembly resolution 54/110 of 9 December 1999, should takeinto consideration the provisions of the United Nations Convention againstTransnational Organized Crime;“8. Urges all States and regional economic organizations to sign and ratify theUnited Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the protocolsthereto as soon as possible in order to ensure the speedy entry into force of theConvention and the protocols thereto;“9. Decides that, until the Conference of the Parties to the Convention establishedpursuant to the United Nations Convention against Transnational OrganizedCrime decides otherwise, the account referred to in article 30 of the Convention willbe operated within the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Fund,and encourages Member States to begin making adequate voluntary contributions tothe above-mentioned account for the provision to developing countries and countrieswith economies in transition of the technical assistance that they might require forimplementation of the Convention and the protocols thereto, including for the preparatorymeasures needed for that implementation;“10. 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 United Nations Convention against TransnationalOrganized Crime by holding a meeting well before the convening of the first sessionof the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, in order to prepare the draft textof the rules of procedure for the Conference of the Parties and other rules and mechanismsdescribed in article 32 of the Convention, which will be communicated to theConference of the Parties at its first session for consideration and action;“11. Requests the Secretary-General to designate the Centre for InternationalCrime Prevention of the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention to serve asthe secretariat for and under the direction of the Conference of the Parties to theConvention;12. 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 United Nations Convention againstTransnational Organized Crime and to discharge the functions of secretariat of theConference of the Parties to the Convention and to support the Ad Hoc Committeein its work pursuant to paragraph 10 above.”Notes by the Secretariat2. At its tenth session, the Ad Hoc Committee approved the revised draft resolution,as orally amended, by which the General Assembly would adopt the convention, on theunderstanding that, at its eleventh session, the Ad Hoc Committee would finalize the textof the draft resolution in order to take into account the results of that session with respectto the draft protocols, and submit it to the General Assembly for consideration and actionat its fifty-fifth session (see A/55/383, para. 81). Also at its eleventh session, the Ad HocCommittee decided to include in the draft resolution two paragraphs in which the Assembly