THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS AND TURKMENISTAN ON MUTUAL TRANSFER OF PERSONS CONDEMNED TO IMPRISONMENT FOR FURTHER SERVING SENTENCE

of May 17, 2002

The Republic of Belarus and Turkmenistan which are referred to as further "Contracting parties"

proceeding from the principles of the state sovereignty, equality, mutual respect,

based on the principles of international law and wishing to develop interstate cooperation in the field of the criminal law,

considering that serving condemned punishments in the state which citizens they are or the persons without citizenship who are constantly living in its territory promotes more effective goal achievement of execution of the punishment, return of offenders to normal life in society,

being guided by the principles of humanity and respect of human rights,

agreed as follows:

Article 1 Determination of Terms

1. For goal achievement of this Agreement stated below terms mean:

a) "state of adjudgement" - The contracting Party which court pronounces sentence about condemnation of person to custodial sanction;

b) "state of execution of sentence" - The contracting Party which is given for further serving sentence the person condemned to imprisonment and who is her citizen and the person without citizenship who is constantly living in its territory;

c) "convict" - person condemned by court of one of Contracting Parties for crime execution to custodial sanction;

d) "close relatives" - persons who are those according to the legislation of each of Contracting Parties;

e) "legal representatives" - recognized as those according to the procedure, established by the legislation of each of Contracting Parties;

e) "competent authorities" - the bodies of Contracting Parties making the decision on transfer of convicts.

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