Interpol - General Assembly 75th Interpol General Assembly - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 19 - 22 September 2006

The ICPO-Interpol General Assembly, meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 19 to 22 September 2006 at its 75th session:

HAVING EXAMINED Report AG-2006-RAP-09, which sets out a Draft Co-operation Agreement with the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF),

RECALLING its previous Resolutions, AGN/45/RES/4 (1976) and AGN/62/RES/6 (1993), by means of which the Organization underscored the importance of combating illegal trade in wild fauna and flora and urged its Members to do their utmost to ensure police co-operation in the field,

ALSO RECALLING the 1998 Memorandum of Understanding with the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES),

RECOGNIZING the interest of formalizing relations between the I CPO-Interpol and LATF in an agreement to support police co-operation initiatives in combating such illegal trade in wild fauna and flora,

DEEMING that the Draft Agreement at Appendix 1 to Report AG-2006-RAP-09 is in conformity with the Organization's interests and rules,

APPROVES the Draft Co-operation Agreement contained in Appendix 1 to Report AG-2006-RAP-09;

AUTHORIZES the Secretary General to sign it.

Adopted.