Concerned at the growing tendency of organized criminal groups and also of terrorist groups in certain circumstances to resort to kidnapping, especially for the purpose of extortion, as a method of accumulating capital with a view to consolidating their criminal operations and undertaking other illegal activities, regardless of their purposes, such as trafficking in firearms and drugs and money-laundering,
关注有组织犯罪集团和恐怖主义集团在某些情况下日益趋向于采用绑架手段，特别是为勒索目的进行绑架，借此积累资本，以加强其犯罪活动以及贩运枪支和毒品、洗钱等其他非法活动，不论其目的为何，