Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07NICOSIA987
2007-12-14 14:55:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Nicosia
Cable title:
CYPRUS: BILATERAL EXTRADITION AND MLAT AGREEMENTS
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UNCLAS NICOSIA 000987
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR H, EUR/SE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KTIA KCRM KJUS CJAN PGOV PREL CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS: BILATERAL EXTRADITION AND MLAT AGREEMENTS
PENDING, U.S.-EU AGREEMENTS APPROVED
REF: SECSTATE 163864
UNCLAS NICOSIA 000987
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR H, EUR/SE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KTIA KCRM KJUS CJAN PGOV PREL CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS: BILATERAL EXTRADITION AND MLAT AGREEMENTS
PENDING, U.S.-EU AGREEMENTS APPROVED
REF: SECSTATE 163864
1. Per reftel, PolOff spoke with First Secretary Nikos
Panayi of the Cypriot Foreign Ministry on December 14
regarding the current status of bilateral and U.S.-EU
Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance (MLAT) agreements.
Panayi's response is keyed to questions posed in reftel.
a) Cyprus already has approved the U.S.-EU Extradition and
MLAT agreements. Legislative action is ongoing on the
bilateral implementing instruments, however, which are due
for parliamentary introduction early in 2008.
b) The Cypriot Ministry of Justice told the MFA that it
expected the Parliament to ratify the MLAT and Extradition
instruments by the end of March 2008.
c) The MFA is unaware of any significant roadblocks to
eventual ratification.
SCHLICHER
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
DEPARTMENT FOR H, EUR/SE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KTIA KCRM KJUS CJAN PGOV PREL CY
SUBJECT: CYPRUS: BILATERAL EXTRADITION AND MLAT AGREEMENTS
PENDING, U.S.-EU AGREEMENTS APPROVED
REF: SECSTATE 163864
1. Per reftel, PolOff spoke with First Secretary Nikos
Panayi of the Cypriot Foreign Ministry on December 14
regarding the current status of bilateral and U.S.-EU
Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance (MLAT) agreements.
Panayi's response is keyed to questions posed in reftel.
a) Cyprus already has approved the U.S.-EU Extradition and
MLAT agreements. Legislative action is ongoing on the
bilateral implementing instruments, however, which are due
for parliamentary introduction early in 2008.
b) The Cypriot Ministry of Justice told the MFA that it
expected the Parliament to ratify the MLAT and Extradition
instruments by the end of March 2008.
c) The MFA is unaware of any significant roadblocks to
eventual ratification.
SCHLICHER