The United Nations considers the World Program for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration a unique initiative in the history of international conferences on crime prevention, and the Qatari Ambassador in Vienna informs Member States of the progress made in the implementation of the Program
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime held a meeting in Vienna to brief the missions of Member States of the United Nations on the progress made under the World Program for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration of the 13^th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice held in Doha in April 2015.
H.E. Sheikh Ali Bin Jassim Al Thani, Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Organizations in Vienna, in his opening address, stressed that the 13^th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice adopted at the conclusion of its Doha Declaration, to integrate crime prevention and criminal justice into the broader United Nations agenda to address social and economic challenges and to promote the rule of law at the national and international levels and public participation, and thus the Conference and its Declaration have become a landmark in the history of crime prevention conferences.
H.E. said Qatar's hosting of the 13^th Congress comes from its international responsibility and keenness to achieve criminal justice and to establish safe societies governed by the rule of law and the principles of freedom and justice and in line with its commitments to support international cooperation in the service of peace, stability and prosperity for mankind, 2030, the State of Qatar, in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), decided to implement the recommendations of the Doha Declaration through the financing of a large-scale global program aimed at helping countries achieve a positive and sustainable impact four basic pillars: prevent youth crime through sport, and the rehabilitation of prisoners, and the integrity of the judiciary, and the Education Initiative for Justice.
The Qatari Ambassador informed the participants that more than 180 countries, mostly from developing countries, were benefiting from the global program resulting from the Doha Declaration. He expressed Qatar's gratitude and appreciation for the efforts of officials at the United Nations Office in Vienna to organize the briefing in Vienna To learn about the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Doha Declaration, and also thanked the representatives of the Member States of the United Nations for their contributions in this regard.
The Qatari ambassador added the Doha Declaration established fair and humane criminal justice systems and reinforced the interrelationship between the rule of law and sustainable development. He expressed confidence that all Member States have the political will and determination to implement the Doha Declaration recommendations and transform them into a program of action that serves and protects societies against organized crime and corruption, terrorism and drugs, and promotes the sustainable development of the peoples of the world.
H.E. Ambassador Ali bin Jassim Al-Thani said that the Qatari initiative was unprecedented in the history of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The Doha Declaration, for the first time in the history of United Nations congresses on crime, served as the basis for the development of an operational program, the largest of its kind supported by a Member State.
He also referred to a landmark event in Vienna last week that was directly related to the Doha Declaration when he organized the largest gathering of judges from around the world and culminated in the launch of the Global Network of Judicial Integrity.
The Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Republic of Austria and its Permanent Representative to the United Nations organizations in Vienna, in conclusion, called upon the States Members of the United Nations that had not been able to participate in the activities of the World Program to coordinate with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Activities and work to implement the recommendations of the Doha Declaration and turn them into action programs covering the coming years, expressing the hope that the Doha recommendations will be completed at the Tokyo Conference in 2020.
For his part, HE Mr. John Brandolino, Director of the Division for Treaty Affairs of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), considered the World Program for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration as a unique initiative in the history of 60 years of United Nations crime prevention conferences, generously funded by the host country of the 13^th Congress Qatar, noting that the program has entered the stage of completion of projects, and was able to reach more than thirteen thousand stakeholders in more than 180 countries.
Delegates of several countries attending the meeting commended the activities of the World Program for the Implementation of the Doha Declaration, led by the representative of Russia, who congratulated both the State of Qatar and the United Nations Office for this fruitful program, while the Delegate of Argentina described the Conference of the Judicial Bodies in Vienna and the launch of the Global Network for Judicial Integrity and Rehabilitation Activities Prisons and the role of sport in protecting young people from the crime emanating from the Doha Declaration, it represents a wonderful work.