Brussels, 15/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - European Commissioner Antonio Vitorino signed in Palermo, on behalf of the Union, the United Nations Convention against organised transnational crime, as well as its annexed protocols on combating the trade in people (especially women and children) and the trafficking of illegal migrants by land, air and sea. The protocol on the firearms and munitions trade still remains to be finalised (see EUROPE of 7 December, p.13). UN Secretary General Kofi Annan...