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Despite the necessity to design and realize measures to control transnational organized crime at the state level, the timeliness and effectiveness of a solution to this problem still leaves much to be desired. The united nations convention against transnational organized crime and its protocols and the convention against corruption provide the platform for this cooperation to proceed, and so full. United nations convention against transnational organized crime and the protocols thereto. He said the text aimed to build consensus on the fight against transnational organized crime in united nations policies. The convention was adopted by the general assembly in 2001, and came into force in 2003 with over 75 state parties.
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