Delegation of Belarus participates in the event on organized crime
19.06.2017On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the assassination of the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone, a high-level meeting on transnational organised crime was held on June 19 at the UN Headquarters in New York.
President of the UN General Assembly, Chair of the twenty-sixth session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, the Executive-Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime took part in its opening.
A thematic discussion “Current gaps, new trends and new problems in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice” was held during the event. Deputy Head of the Directorate for Multilateral Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Vadim Pisarevich took part in the discussion.
In his statement, the Belarusian diplomat focused on the effectiveness of existing international agreements to combat world crime and their relevance to new types of crimes. At the same time, V. Pisarevich called for the creation of a new strategic guidance that would help states to use Palermo tools in the fight against new types of crimes.
