33rd Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) agenda Item 9: Follow-up to the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the Fifteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
2024/12/13
Mister Chair,
We are extremely grateful that over the past three and a half years since the Fourteenth Congress, also known as the Kyoto Congress, Member States and the UNODC have been working tirelessly to implement the Kyoto Declaration. Such concerted efforts ensure that the Kyoto Declaration remains a “living document” and a guiding light for the international community.
Mister Chair,
Japan firmly believes that, at the Kyoto Congress, we have made notable achievements, which include highlighting the importance of youth empowerment towards a brighter future, emphasizing the need to further facilitate international cooperation in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice to better combat crime, and promoting the value of multi-stakeholder partnership for a better society.
Mister Chair,
Japan will continue promoting the global implementation of the Kyoto Declaration by focusing on three notable initiatives.
First, in cooperation with UNODC, we have been convening the Global Youth Forum for a Culture of Lawfulness on a regular basis. The Forum serves as a place where the youth worldwide can deepen their understanding of contemporary issues in the field of law and justice, share diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and foster networks and friendships, while bringing their voices to the United Nations. Through this forum, we intend to continue contributing to the empowerment of youth in the field of law and justice.
Second, Japan has been holding the Criminal Justice Forum for Asia and the Pacific, or “Crim-AP”, together with UNODC on a regular basis. This Forum serves as a platform for information sharing among criminal justice practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region. With this initiative, we want to facilitate regional cooperation in criminal matters and offender rehabilitation through enhancing knowledge-base and fostering trust among practitioners.
Third, we have been leading the formulation of the Model Strategies on Reducing Reoffending. Japan strongly believe that by developing these Model Strategies we will contribute to the implementation of the Kyoto Declaration and to the enhancement of recidivism prevention measures in countries around the world.
Mister Chair,
As the host country of the previous Congress, Japan wholeheartedly supports the United Arab Emirates in the forthcoming Congress.
Japan firmly believes that the consistency and continuity of our initiatives across Congresses are critical in achieving safer and just societies.
Therefore, Japan wishes that, at the next Congress, we will take stock of follow-up actions of the Kyoto Congress and observe what we have achieved over the past five years since the Kyoto Congress and what we have yet to do, and reflect such stocktaking onto the discussions in Abu Dhabi. Japan stands ready to pass on the torch with “fire burning bright” to the UAE.
We are extremely grateful that over the past three and a half years since the Fourteenth Congress, also known as the Kyoto Congress, Member States and the UNODC have been working tirelessly to implement the Kyoto Declaration. Such concerted efforts ensure that the Kyoto Declaration remains a “living document” and a guiding light for the international community.
Mister Chair,
Japan firmly believes that, at the Kyoto Congress, we have made notable achievements, which include highlighting the importance of youth empowerment towards a brighter future, emphasizing the need to further facilitate international cooperation in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice to better combat crime, and promoting the value of multi-stakeholder partnership for a better society.
Mister Chair,
Japan will continue promoting the global implementation of the Kyoto Declaration by focusing on three notable initiatives.
First, in cooperation with UNODC, we have been convening the Global Youth Forum for a Culture of Lawfulness on a regular basis. The Forum serves as a place where the youth worldwide can deepen their understanding of contemporary issues in the field of law and justice, share diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and foster networks and friendships, while bringing their voices to the United Nations. Through this forum, we intend to continue contributing to the empowerment of youth in the field of law and justice.
Second, Japan has been holding the Criminal Justice Forum for Asia and the Pacific, or “Crim-AP”, together with UNODC on a regular basis. This Forum serves as a platform for information sharing among criminal justice practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region. With this initiative, we want to facilitate regional cooperation in criminal matters and offender rehabilitation through enhancing knowledge-base and fostering trust among practitioners.
Third, we have been leading the formulation of the Model Strategies on Reducing Reoffending. Japan strongly believe that by developing these Model Strategies we will contribute to the implementation of the Kyoto Declaration and to the enhancement of recidivism prevention measures in countries around the world.
Mister Chair,
As the host country of the previous Congress, Japan wholeheartedly supports the United Arab Emirates in the forthcoming Congress.
Japan firmly believes that the consistency and continuity of our initiatives across Congresses are critical in achieving safer and just societies.
Therefore, Japan wishes that, at the next Congress, we will take stock of follow-up actions of the Kyoto Congress and observe what we have achieved over the past five years since the Kyoto Congress and what we have yet to do, and reflect such stocktaking onto the discussions in Abu Dhabi. Japan stands ready to pass on the torch with “fire burning bright” to the UAE.
- Finally, Japan is currently leading the development of the United Nations Model Strategies on Reducing Reoffending as an important follow-up to the Kyoto Congress.
- I would like to say a few words, not in a national capacity, but in my capacity as the Chairperson.
- Informal consultations will be held next week, and the 2nd Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting will take place in the last week of January next year.
- I once again call on the active participation of States in these meetings, and Japan makes its utmost efforts together with States for the conclusion of negotiations on the UN Model Strategies on Reducing Reoffending at the Second Meeting of Governmental Experts in January.