Resolution of Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States

of April 3, 1999 No. 13-4

About legal support of counteraction of crime in the territory of the Commonwealth countries

Recognizing need of every possible activation of protection of the person against criminal actions,

considering that crime in the State Parties of the CIS increasingly acquires transnational nature and really counteracts the undertaken economic reforms, providing the rights and fundamental freedoms of the person according to the conventional principles and rules of international law,

understanding need of expansion and deepening of cooperation of legislative and law enforcement agencies of the Commonwealth countries on counteraction of crime on the strong legal basis,

proceeding from cross liabilities of the State Parties of the CIS in the field of crime counteraction, on forming of general legal space on the basis of standardization of the national legal system,

The inter-parliamentary Assembly decides:

1. Accept the appeal of Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States to heads of state and government of the Commonwealth countries about coordination of common efforts of legislative and law enforcement agencies in crime counteraction (appendix 1).

2. Recommend to parliaments of the State Parties of Inter-parliamentary Assembly:

- perform ratification of the relevant interstate acts according to constitutional processes (appendix 2), and also to use in case of development of national legal acts model Criminal, Criminal procedure and Criminal and executive codes, other model laws for the purpose of forming of single legal space for crime counteraction, including transnational;

- consider question of possibility of ratification of the European convention on issue of 1957 with additional protocols 1975 and 1978 of years, the European convention on mutual legal assistance on criminal cases of 1959 with the additional protocol of 1978.

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