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effective cooperation between States, taking into account the contents of model legislation5 recommended by
the Intergovernmental Expert Group Meeting;
5. Invites States to consider taking steps, within the framework of national legal systems, to conclude
extradition and surrender or transfer agreements;
6. Urges States to revise bilateral and multilateral law enforcement cooperation arrangements as an
integral part of the effort to effectively combat constantly changing methods of individuals and groups
engaging in organized transnational crime;
7. Urges Member States to use the Model Treaty on Extradition as a basis in developing treaty
relations at the bilateral, regional or multilateral level, as appropriate;
8. Also urges Member States to continue to acknowledge that the protection of human rights should
not be considered inconsistent with effective international cooperation in criminal matters, while recognizing
the need for fully effective mechanisms for extraditing fugitives;
9. Invites Member States to consider, where applicable and within the framework of national legal
systems, the following measures in the context of the use and application of extradition treaties or other
arrangements:
(a) Establishing and designating a national central authority to process requests for extradition;
(b) Undertaking regular reviews of their treaty or other extradition arrangements and implementing
legislation, as well as taking other necessary measures for the purpose of rendering such arrangements and
legislation more efficient and effective in combating new and complex forms of crime;
(c) Simplifying and streamlining procedures necessary to execute and initiate requests for extradition,
including the provision to requested States of information sufficient to enable extradition;
(d) Reducing the technical requirements, including documentation, necessary to satisfy the tests for
extradition in cases where a person is accused of an offence;
(e) Providing for extraditable offences to extend to all acts and omissions that would be criminal
offences in both States carrying a prescribed minimum penalty and not to be individually listed in treaties
or other agreements, particularly with respect to organized transnational crime;
(f)
Ensuring effective application of the principle of aut dedere aut judicare;
(g) Paying adequate attention, when considering and implementing the measures mentioned in
subparagraphs 9 (b) to (f) above, to furthering the protection of human rights and the maintenance of the rule
of law;
10. Encourages Member States to promote, on a bilateral, regional or worldwide basis, measures to
improve the skills of officials in order to facilitate extradition, such as specialized training and, whenever
possible, secondment and exchanges of personnel, as well as the appointment in other States of
representatives of prosecuting agencies or of judicial authorities, in accordance with national legislation or
bilateral agreements;
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E/CN.15/1997/6 and Corr.1, annex, section I, appendix II.
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