Councillor Rita Theodorou Superman, member of the Cypriot delegation to the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (MPA), represented the Assembly at the Second Part of the 31st Annual Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Control (UNODC), held in Vienna, hybrid, on 8 and 9 December 2022. Ms. Superman had also represented the Assembly at the First Part of the 31st Session last May.
In an audio-visual message, Ms. Superman provided an update on the work of the CMC in strengthening criminal justice and transnational crime prevention in the Mediterranean and Gulf region. She referred in particular to the Conference on the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, convened by the CMC in Naples last June and the adoption of the Naples Declaration, in which the CMC committed to further contribute to the process of reviewing the Convention and to efforts to combat transnational crime.
Ms. Superman underlined the CBM's commitment to preventing and combating trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants, noting the close cooperation of the CBM with the Office of the OSCE Special Representative and Coordinator on Trafficking in Persons.
The work of the CMC, Ms. Superman further noted, also focuses on preventing and combating environmental crime and, in this context, the CMC has developed important partnerships with other international actors to raise awareness and information on the dumping of toxic and hazardous waste in the Mediterranean. Finally, the Cypriot MEP referred to the ongoing joint project of the CMC and the United Nations Environment Programme/Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) to establish guidelines as a tool to support the legislative work of parliaments, with the aim of promoting policies for the protection of the Mediterranean Sea and the prevention of coastal erosion.
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