Those texts gave States contractual obligations to work together and provided them with the conceptual and logistic support they needed to focus on prevention, which was always preferable to confronting a problem after the fact.
这些文本对各国规定了合作的义务，并向它们提供了方针以及概念与逻辑上的支持，以便优先考虑预防，因为预防总比事后行动更好。