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UNIS/MA/74

1 October 2014

MEDIA ADVISORY

Collective action against trans-border criminal networks to be discussed at Transnational Organized Crime Conference

VIENNA, 1 October (UN Information Service) -Media are invited to attend the Seventh Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime from 6 to 10 October 2014.

A press conference will be held on Monday, 6 October.

WHAT: Press conference with Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and the President of the COP, Ambassador Cristian Istrate (Romania)

WHERE: Press Room, M Building, Vienna International Centre

WHEN: Monday, 6 October at 12:00 noon

The opening session and all plenary sessions as well as side events are open to the media.

The programme, including side events, is available online

For media accreditation:

Media representatives who wish to attend the opening of the Conference and side events, and who are not accredited to the VIC, should contact press@unvienna.org.

Access to the M-building is via Gate One of the Vienna International Centre.

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For additional information about the Seventh Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime go to:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/treaties/CTOC/CTOC-COP-session7.html

For further information please contact:

David Dadge
Spokesperson, UNODC
Telephone: (+43 1) 26060-5629
Mobile: (+43-699) 1459-5629
Email: david.dadge[at]unvienna.org

or

Reka Furtos
Public Information Officer, UNIS Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-83019
Mobile: (+43-699) 1458-3019
Email: reka.furtos[at]unvienna.org