The CICTE Secretariat and UNODC organized in Lima, in collaboration with the Government of Peru, a “Specialized Workshop on International Cooperation on Terrorism and Criminal Issues” 

From October 16 to 19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru hosted the “Specialized Workshop on International Cooperation on Terrorism and Criminal Issues”, organized by the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in collaboration with the Government of Peru.

Together with international experts, delegates from eleven countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela—participated in the workshop.

The main goals of the event were: to promote an exchange of national experiences and best practices on extradition and mutual legal assistance, as well as to analyze the international and regional legal frameworks on the fight against terrorism and transnational organized crime. The participants made presentations of positive and negative cases related to extradition and mutual legal assistance matters.

The contributions made by the CICTE Secretariat included a presentation of the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism, as well as an explanation on the implementation of the Legislation and terrorist financing Programs and the distribution of the CICTE’s Bulletin of its Programs, together with a CD-Rom with the updated version of the “Practical Guide to the Prevention, Detection and Suppression of terrorist financing.”

Furthermore, the OAS also contributed substantively with a presentation given by one of the experts of the Office of Legal Cooperation, who explained the achievements on hemispheric cooperation, particularly the meetings of Ministers of Justice or of Ministers or Attorney Generals of the Americas (REMJA), as well as the functioning and utility of the “Hemispheric Information Network for Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition.”