OEA/Ser.P AG/RES. 1776 (XXXI-O/01) 5 June 2001 Original: Spanish SUPPORT FOR THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME (Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 5, 2001; subject to review by the Style Committee) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN the Annual Report of the Permanent Council (CP/doc....../01) and the Annual Report of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) (CP/doc.3427/01); RECALLING its resolution AG/RES. 1731 (XXX-O/00), "Support for the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime"; RECALLING FURTHER that the Inter-American Convention against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials, the Inter-American Convention against Corruption, and the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM) of CICAD represent significant contributions to the fight against transnational organized crime in the Hemisphere; BEARING IN MIND the need to reinforce further the fight against transnational organized crime in accordance with the commitment undertaken by the Heads of State and Government at the Second and Third Summits of the Americas; BEARING IN MIND ALSO that the Heads of State and Government at the Third Summit of the Americas recognized the important contribution that the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its three protocols would make to the fight against organized crime in the Hemisphere; and REAFFIRMING that the member states of the OAS can play a fundamental role in the strengthening of international cooperation against transnational organized crime, RESOLVES: 1. To urge all OAS member states to consider signing and ratifying, ratifying, or acceding to, as soon as possible and as the case may be, the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and its Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, once the latter is open for signature. 2. To request the General Secretariat to transmit this resolution to the United Nations' General Secretariat.