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Improving European Co-operation
in the Criminal Justice Field
High level Conference
of
the Ministries of Justice and of the Interior
9-10 November 2006, Moscow (Russian Federation)
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Photo: Guy De Vel, Director General of Legal
Affairs of the Council of Europe, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary
General of the Council of Europe, Viktor Petrovic Ivanov, Representative of
President Putin et Vladimir Vassilievitch Ustinov, Minister of Justice of
the Russian Federation |
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The Council of Europe paves the way for more efficient and speedier
pan-European co-operation in criminal matters
At the end of their discussions at their Moscow conference of 9 and 10
November, the Ministers of Justice and the Interior of the 46 Council of
Europe member states called on the Organisation to modernise and simplify
the workings of the main European Conventions regulating international
co-operation in criminal matters, particularly those relating to extradition
and mutual legal assistance, and to take a number of practical steps.
The Ministers inter alia expressed support for the development of a
network of national contact points to facilitate relations between those
responsible for international co-operation relating to the fight against
terrorism, corruption and organised crime, the trafficking of human beings
and cybercrime. They also backed the creation of a database making it easier
to access information about the forms that co-operation takes between member
states.
Opening
addresses
Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of
Europe
Ambassador Bruno GAIN, Permanent
Representative of France to the Council of Europe, Representative of the
Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Mr Ivan BIZJAK, General Director –
DG H, Council of the European Union
Addresses by
Mrs Ana LOVRIN, Minister of
Justice of Croatia
Mr Ivica KIRIN, Minister of the
Interior of Croatia
Mr Anastasis PAPALIGOURAS,
Minister of Justice of Greece
Ms Judit LÉVAYNÉ FAZEKAS,
State Secretary, Ministry of Justice of Hungary
(French only)
Mr Cemil ÇIÇEK, Minister of Justice
of Turkey
Mr Saso VASILEVSKI, Deputy
Minister of Justice of “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”
Mr Stefan HARABIN, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice of the
Slovak Republic
(French only)
Mr Lovro ŠTURM, Minister of Justice
of Slovenia
Contributions presented by countries
Mr. Slobodan KOVAC, Minister
of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Russian
only)
Ministry of Justice of “the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
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About the conference |
Background paper
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Programme
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Participants |
Conclusions adopted |
The Conference in pictures |
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Reports presented by Rapporteurs/Chairs of
sessions |
Mr Yuri CHAIKA, Prosecutor
General of the Russian Federation, Rapporteur for the First Session
Mr Fikrat MAMMADOV, Minister
of Justice of Azerbaijan, Rapporteur for the First Session
Mr Eugenio SELVAGGI, Former
Chair of the PC-OC, Rapporteur for the First Session
Mr Anastasis
PAPALIGOURAS, Minister of Justice of Greece, Rapporteur for the Second
Session
Mr Alberto MARITATI, Under
Secretary for Justice of Italy, Rapporteur of the Third Session
Mr Guy DE VEL, Director General
of Legal Affairs of the Council oof Europe, Rapporteur of the Fourth
Session |
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Reference document |
Resolution No. 5 on the functioning of the Council of Europe conventions
on judicial co-operation in criminal matters (26th Conference of the
European Ministers of Justice, 7-8 April 2005, Helsinki) |
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