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The agreement on exchange of information in the field of fight against crime

of May 22, 2009

The governments of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States which further are referred to as with the Parties

recognizing that crime in all its forms poses serious threat for safety of the personality, society and the state,

being guided by desire to develop cooperation of the Parties in the field of exchange of information,

proceeding from need of further strengthening of information exchange in case of the solution of tasks of protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, fight against crime, protection of public order,

being guided by the conventional principles and rules of international law,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

1. The parties for the purpose of the prevention, identifications, suppression, disclosure and investigation of crimes on a grant basis provide the information which is available in operational and help, search, criminalistic and other accounting, archives on requests and also perform exchange of the scientific and technical, information and analytical materials and regulatory legal acts which are available at their order in the field of fight against crime.

2. The cooperation within this agreement is performed according to the legislation and the international obligations of the states of the Parties.

3. The parties cooperate through the competent authorities. The list of competent authorities is determined by each Party and transferred to depositary in case of delivery to storage of the notification on accomplishment of the interstate procedures necessary for the introduction of this agreement to force. Each of the Parties within a month in writing notifies depositary on changes of the list of competent authorities.

Article 2

1. The cooperation of competent authorities of the Parties is performed by means of the direction of information and execution of requests about provision of information (further - request).

2. Information can be transferred to other Party in initiative procedure if reasons to believe are had that it is of interest to this Party.

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