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OAS CONVENES MEETING OF AUTHORITIES ON MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS AND EXTRADITION TO BE HELD IN PARAGUAY The Permanent Council of the OAS, at its meeting on Friday December, 9, convened the Fifth Meeting of the Working Group on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition of the REMJA process (Meetings of Ministers of Justice or Other Ministers or Attorneys General of the Americas), to be held in Asuncion, Paraguay, from May 29 to 31, 2012, pursuant to the mandate of the General Assembly of the Organization and the “Document of Washington” that governs the process of REMJA.
At this fifth meeting, central and international legal cooperation authorities, as well as other governmental experts responsible for mutual assistance and extradition of the OAS Member States, will consider, among other things, efforts to facilitate the use of new communication technologies for cooperation in mutual assistance in criminal matters and extradition, and model agreements that provide a legal framework for joint investigations and special investigative techniques. The conclusions and recommendations arising from this meeting will be considered by the Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Americas at its next meeting to be held in San Salvador in 2012. For more information about this meeting and the developments and activities of this Working Group, please visit the Criminal Matters Network of the OAS.
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In
its address to the Permanent Council, the Delegation of Paraguay said
that for its country “... the process of meetings of the REMJA
Working Group on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition
is an important initiative for hemispheric cooperation in the field,
which has served as the main forum in the Americas to strengthen
cooperation between our countries, for making the necessary
recommendations to improve and strengthen mechanisms for extradition and
mutual assistance in the region and for facilitating and making more
efficient cooperation and information exchange between our central
authorities through truly effective tools like the Criminal Matters
Networks of the OAS and its secure communication components.”