In paragraph 85 of the political declaration, Member States committed to implementing the declaration and invited the Conference of the States Parties to the Convention, as the treaty body with prime responsibility for promoting and reviewing the implementation of the Convention, to follow up and build on the declaration.
In its resolution 9/2 entitled “Our common commitment to effectively addressing challenges and implementing measures to prevent and combat corruption and strengthening international cooperation: follow-up to the special session of the General Assembly against corruption”, the Conference responded to the call by the special session and committed to following up and building on the political declaration. The Conference directed its subsidiary bodies, within their mandates, to take appropriate measures to follow up on the political declaration.
In addition, the Conference decided to hold, within existing resources and with interpretation in all the official languages of the United Nations, preferably in 2022 and prior to the tenth session of the Conference, one follow-up intersessional meeting of the Conference on the achievements of the political declaration, and requested the Bureau of the ninth session of the Conference to make the necessary arrangements for the organization of this intersessional meeting, in close consultation with States parties, in line with the rules of procedure. The meeting was held in Vienna from 5-8 September 2022, more information is available here.
The Conference requested the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to provide substantive expertise and technical support to the Conference and its subsidiary bodies in conducting the follow-up process, including by creating and maintaining, on the Tools and Resources for Anti-Corruption Knowledge (TRACK) portal, a repository of all the contributions submitted on a voluntary basis by States parties on the implementation of the Convention and the political declaration, such as on good practices and progress made in the use of international cooperation mechanisms under the Convention.
Recalling the importance of an inclusive follow-up process to the special session, the Conference encouraged organs, entities and specialized agencies of the United Nations system, relevant international and regional organizations, civil society, academia and other relevant stakeholders to fully contribute to the follow-up process, in accordance with the relevant rules of procedure of the Conference, and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to collect such contributions and make them available to the Conference.
The contributions received to date are available here.
