In its resolution 55/25 of November 15, 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and two supplementary protocols thereto, the Protocol To Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, and the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea, and Air. In its resolution 55/255 of May 31, 2001, the General Assembly adopted a third protocol to the convention, the Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms. A Conference of the Parties to the Convention was established to improve the capacity of states parties to combat transnational organized crime and to promote and review the implementation of the convention. After outlining the conference parties' decision on conferences rules of procedure and agenda, this report presents the organization of the session, which encompasses the opening of the session, election of officers, adoption of the agenda and organization of work, consideration and adoption of the rules of procedure for the conference, number and characteristics of participants, adoption of the report of the Bureau on Credentials, and documentation. Other issues considered in the conference are reviewed, notably the mechanisms for achieving conference objectives, notification requirements, consideration of matters that pertain to convention protocols, the setting of the provisional agenda for the second conference session, and adoption of the report on the first session of the conference. Appended draft of the provisional agenda for the second session, a list of participants, and a list of documents before the conference at its first session