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Minister of Justice looking in Washington to conclude an agreement for legal and judicial cooperation and the exchange of convicts between Iraq and the United States
2012-09-26 19:34:12
BAGHDAD (Iba) .. Research and Minister of Justice Hassan Shammari in Washington with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and a number of officials and the U.S. State Department, the possibility of a bilateral agreement for cooperation on legal and judicial and exchange convicts, given the growing numbers of the Iraqi community in the United States and that more than half a million Iraqis.
And discussed Shammari in his visit to the United States at the head of a delegation from the Ministry of Justice ways to enhance support for the departments of Justice Iraqi particularly in the area of infrastructure development of the prisons of Iraq and the rehabilitation of cadres through a system of cohabitation field in the prisons of the United States Iraqi similar in design and its system of prisons in Iraq .
For their part, expressed U.S. officials are willing to consider the idea of a bilateral agreement with Iraq and their desire to sustain cooperation with the Iraqi Justice Ministry, stressing the need to continue to communicate and work with Iraqi officials to identify ways and mechanisms of bilateral cooperation. Stressing their determination to support the unity of Iraq and to support the government to achieve stability for the Iraqi people.
At the side of his visit to the United States of America held Shammari and his entourage two rounds field to two major prisons in the state (Maryland) For the Sjnyen infrastructure and how their management and the maintenance of order in them.
The delegation also Iraqi visit Assembly American Correctional supervising the application of legal standards and international sections reformist delegation met the prosecutor in the state and a number of directors and advisers federal courts Supreme, for the systems and methods used in business management and resolution of conflicts and issues related to the rehabilitation and preparation of the judges, in order to benefit from in the development of the work of the administrative judiciary and the Judicial Institute of the Ministry of Justice.
The visit comes at the invitation of the International Bureau for counter-narcotics and law enforcement in the U.S. State Department and within the framework of constructive cooperation between the Iraqi Justice Ministry and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice of the Americas, on the basis of the strategic agreement signed between the two parties. (End)
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