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05DUBLIN889
2005-07-15 16:16:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dublin
Cable title:
U.S.-IRELAND AGREEMENTS ON EXTRADITION/MUTUAL
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UNCLAS DUBLIN 000889
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL CJAN KCRM PTER
SUBJECT: U.S.-IRELAND AGREEMENTS ON EXTRADITION/MUTUAL
LEGAL ASSISTANCE SIGNED
In a July 14 public ceremony attended by the press, the
Ambassador and Irish Minister of Justice, Equality, and Law
Reform, Michael McDowell, signed U.S.-Irish agreements on
extradition and mutual legal assistance. Police Commissioner
Noel Conroy, Attorney General Rory Brady, and Justice
Department Secretary General Sean Aylward also attended the
signing ceremony. The instruments are part of a sequence of
bilateral agreements that the United States is pursuing with
all EU Member States, in order to implement twin U.S.-EU
agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance signed
in 2003. The new U.S.-Irish agreements update and supplement
a 1983 bilateral extradition treaty and a 2001 bilateral
mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT, for which the Irish
ratification process has not been completed). Press reports
on the signing were positive, noting that the agreements
would facilitate cooperation between U.S. and Irish law
enforcement authorities in combatting crime and, in
particular, terrorism.
KENNY
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL CJAN KCRM PTER
SUBJECT: U.S.-IRELAND AGREEMENTS ON EXTRADITION/MUTUAL
LEGAL ASSISTANCE SIGNED
In a July 14 public ceremony attended by the press, the
Ambassador and Irish Minister of Justice, Equality, and Law
Reform, Michael McDowell, signed U.S.-Irish agreements on
extradition and mutual legal assistance. Police Commissioner
Noel Conroy, Attorney General Rory Brady, and Justice
Department Secretary General Sean Aylward also attended the
signing ceremony. The instruments are part of a sequence of
bilateral agreements that the United States is pursuing with
all EU Member States, in order to implement twin U.S.-EU
agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance signed
in 2003. The new U.S.-Irish agreements update and supplement
a 1983 bilateral extradition treaty and a 2001 bilateral
mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT, for which the Irish
ratification process has not been completed). Press reports
on the signing were positive, noting that the agreements
would facilitate cooperation between U.S. and Irish law
enforcement authorities in combatting crime and, in
particular, terrorism.
KENNY