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Adoption of UN Convention Against Corruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 98 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 182 - 184
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004 

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References

1 See GA Res. 55/61 (Dec. 4, 2000).

2 See Report of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Negotiation of a Convention Against Corruption on the Work of Its First to Seventh Sessions, UN Doc. A/58/422 (Oct. 7, 2003). For the committee’s interpretive notes on the convention, see UN Doc. A/58/422/Add.l (Oct. 7, 2003).

3 See GA Res. 58/4 (Oct. 31, 2003).

4 Id., annex.

5 UN Doc. A/58/PV.50, at 19 (Oct. 31, 2003). Existing regional conventions on corruption include: OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, Dec. 17, 1997, OECD Doc. DAFFE/IME/BR(97)20, 37 ILM 1 (1998), at<http://www.oecd.org>; OAS Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, Mar. 29, 1996, OAS Doc. B-58, 35 ILM 724 (1996), at <http://www.oas.org>; Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, Jan. 27, 1999, ETS No. 173, 38 ILM 505 (1999); and Organization of African Unity Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption July 11, 2003, at <http://www.africa-union.org>.

6 See UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Signatories to the UN Convention Against Corruption (visited Dec. 19, 2003), at <http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/crime_convention_corruption.html>.

7 See U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release on Signing of the UN Convention Against Corruption (Dec. 10, 2003), at <http://www.state.gov>.

8 UN Convention Against Corruption, supra note 4, Art. 68.