CAIRO, Nov 12 (KUNA) -- The minsterial Arab Justice Council concluded its 41st session on Wednesday after taking decisions partly designed to revamp pan-Arab judicial cooperation.
The officials took several "significant decisions" during the session, namely boosting cooperation between the council's secretariat general and its counterpart of the Arab Interior Council through formation of joint committees, said Nof Al-Gabandi, the Kuwaiti justice assistant undersecretary for technical and administrative affairs, in a statement to KUNA.
These new commissions will be tasked with amending the draft Arab guidance law for regulating records of terrorists and terrorism entities, updating the Riyadh treaty for judicial cooperation (1983), drawing up an Arab strategy for combating organized crime in coordination with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Al-Gabandi said.
The Riyadh Arab Agreement for Judicial Cooperation, signed in 1983 (also known as the Riyadh Convention), is a major multilateral treaty among the Arab League states aimed at facilitating legal and judicial assistance, cooperation, and enforcement of judgments across member nations. The conferees decided to support the Sudanese ministry of justice to upgrade its institutions through know-how swap and experts' dispatch to the nation, she added. (end) mm.rk