" واقترحت باكستان اعادة صياغة هذه الفقرة على النحو التالي: "لأغراض هذه الاتفاقية، يعتبر الحق في الموجودات المحازة على نحو غير مشروع والمتأتية من أفعال فساد، بصرف النظر عن موقعها، عائدا إلى الدولة المتضررة التي تأتت منها تلك الموجودات، ويكون لها الحق الأساسي [غير القابل للتصرف] في استردادها والحصول على امكانية اعادة تلك الموجودات أو نقلها. "
Mexico proposed to amend this paragraph to read as follows: “For the purposes of this Convention, States Parties whose public funds have been embezzled by means of the commission of any of the offences covered by this Convention and have been transferred abroad shall have an exclusive right to the recovery of such funds.” Pakistan proposed the following reformulation of this paragraph: “For the purposes of this Convention, the title in the illicitly acquired assets derived from acts of corruption, irrespective of their location, shall be deemed to be vested in the affected State from which the assets originated, which shall have the [inalienable] fundamental right to their recovery and to obtain return or transfer of those assets.”