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This past May 16 in Brasilia, the meeting of the
Sixth Working Group in Legal Cooperation in Criminal Matters of the
OAS/REMJA
process concluded with the adoption of a set of concrete
recommendations to strengthen mutual legal assistance and
extradition in the Americas.
One of the principle outcomes of this meeting, which
brought together central authorities and government experts responsible
for legal cooperation in criminal matters in the member States of the
OAS, was the agreement by consensus of the proposed Additional Protocol
to the
Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
relative to the Use of New Communication Technologies and Hearings by
Videoconference, which will be presented at the next Meeting of
Ministers of Justice or Other Ministers or Attorneys General of the
Americas for its consideration. Moreover, as part of the work provided for in the
agenda, the delegations had the opportunity to consider the proposals
presented by Argentina and Chile on a new Inter-American Convention on
Extradition and an Additional Protocol to the
Nassau
Convention on Joint Investigation Teams, respectively, which will be
presented for the approval of the Working Group at its Seventh Meeting,
to be held in Trinidad and Tobago. For its part, the OAS General Secretariat, through
its REMJA Technical Secretariat (Department of Legal Cooperation) and
Department of Information and Technology Services, presented a new
platform and technological tools of the Hemispheric Network for Legal
Cooperation in Criminal Matters, which was very well received by the
delegations. The outcomes and recommendations of this Meeting will
be presented by Brazil to the Ministers of Justice or Other Ministers or
Attorneys General of the Americas at its tenth meeting (REMJA X) for its
consideration. For more information on this meeting and other
developments and activities of this Working Group, please visit the
Criminal Matters Network of
the OAS/REMJA.
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