In summit meetings of the leaders of industrialized nations(G7 and G8 Summits), hijacking, narcotics trafficking, terrorism, money laundering, international crime organizations, and other problems of international crime are occasionally taken up in statements or economic declarations, and the need has been stressed for a strengthening of international cooperation in preventing transnational crime.
  The economic declaration made at the Arche Summit (Paris) in 1989 led to the creation of a Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). In 1990, the Task Force issued recommendations on measures to combat money laundering, such as the criminalization of money laundering derived from drug trafficking, an obligation on financial institutions and others to identify their customers and report suspicious transactions to the competent authorities, the seizure and sequestration of illegal earnings, and a strengthening of international cooperation (the original Forty Recommendations). In 1996, these recommendations were revised, and it was recommended, among other things, that the predicate offenses to money laundering should be expanded to include serious crimes besides drug-related offenses (the revised Forty Recommendations).
  As for transnational organized crime, a Senior Expert Group on Transnational Organized Crime was set up in response to the Chairman's Statement at the Halifax Summit in 1995. Then, at the Lyon Summit in 1996, Forty Recommendations on measures to combat transnational organized crime were announced. These included the importance and effectiveness of technology for the protection of information providers and witnesses, electronic surveillance, undercover operations, controlled delivery, and others. At the Denver Summit in 1997, a report was made on the implementation of these recommendations. Meanwhile, at the Birmingham Summit in 1998, it was unanimously agreed that efforts towards the negotiation of a UN convention on organized crime would be supported.
  At the Cologne Summit in 1999, an agreement was reached aimed at further promoting the negotiation of a UN convention on organized crime as well as a UN convention on the financing of terrorists. Requests were made to the Senior Expert Group on Transnational Organized Crime and the Senior Expert Group on Terrorism to the effect that they should submit reports on their state of progress before the end of 2000.
  In 1999, a G8 Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Organized Crime was held in Moscow, including discussion on "Global tasks in measures against transnational organized crime", "Financial aspects of transnational organized crime", and "Measures to combat transnational organized crime in the hi-tech sector".
  At the Kyushu-Okinawa Summit in 2000, agreement was reached on several countermeasures against transnational organized crime. These included support for adoption of a UN convention on transnational organized crime by the end of the year, promotion of dialog between governments and industry aimed at countermeasures against hi-tech crime, strengthening of international cooperation to combat drug-related offenses, the importance of measures to combat financial crime including money laundering, the importance of measures to combat corruption, preparations for the expected start of negotiations by the UN on new documents for combating corruption, support for the reinforcement of criminal justice systems in developing countries, the importance of aid for victims, etc. , and, as measures to combat terrorism, an exchange of information with a view to terrorism countermeasures and promoting measures to combat the financing of terrorism.