A/RES/52/88 Page 3 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; 5 E/CN.15/1997/6 and Corr.1, annex, section I, appendix II. /...

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