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STRATEGY FOR GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AGAINST GLOBAL CRIME , UNTOC & UNCAC WANTING legal persons, prosecution, adjudication and sentencing, seizure and confiscation, joint investigations, special investigative techniques (e.g. controlled delivery), protection of witnesses, etc, International cooperation Both UNTOC and UNCAC provide for international cooperation and in particular as related to extradition, mutual legal assistance, transfer of sentenced persons and transfer of criminal proceedings and law enforcement cooperation. UNCAC in its Chapter V promulgates Asset recovery as a fundamental principle of this Convention. UNTOC and UNCAC provide the most important instrument for an effective and global implementation of the international cooperation forms and modes which overcomes the limits of the bilateral treaties. In other words, all the state parties which have ratified UNTOC and/or UNCOC can use international cooperation as per the two Conventions respectively even when there are no bilateral treaties or those in existence do not include criminal offences and/or other provisions contained in UNTOC and UNCAC. This is the most powerful potential for an effective and the broadest possible international cooperation against organized crime and corruption in their forms and manifestations as envisaged by the two respective Conventions. Conference of the Parties to the Convention Article 32 of UNTOC and Article 63 of UNCAC establishes each “Conference of the (State) Parties to the Conference”- COP for UNTOC and COPS for UNCA respectively with the aim to improve the capacity to combat and achieve the objectives of the Conventions and to “ promote and review” the implementation. UNTOC COP also covers the Protocols supplementing the Convention. UNTOC COP and UNCAC COSP share similar objectives including facilitating activities of the Parties to the Conventions, mobilization of voluntary contributions, the exchange of information on patterns and trends in transnational organized crime and corruption and on successful practices in prevention and combat, cooperation with relevant international and regional organizations, and — Reviewing periodically the implementation, — Making recommendations to improve the Conventions and their implementation respectively, — Proposing (following the initial period of five years after the entry into force «183 +
