The contract between the Republic of Kazakhstan and Ukraine on transfer of persons condemned to imprisonment for further serving sentence

of September 17, 1999

The Republic of Kazakhstan and Ukraine which are referred to as further "Contracting parties" proceeding from the principles of the state sovereignty, equality and mutual respect;

based on rules 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, 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

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

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

2) "State of execution of sentence" - The contracting Party which is given for serving sentence the person condemned to imprisonment and who is her citizen;

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

4) "Close relatives" - persons consisting in relationship - for the Republic of Kazakhstan: parents, the spouse (spouse), children, adoptive parents adopted full and not full brothers and sisters, the grandfather, the grandmother, grandsons"; for Ukraine: mother, the father, the husband, the wife, children, brothers and sisters, grandsons, the grandfather and the grandma, the adoptive parents adopted;

5) "Competent authorities" - the bodies of Contracting Parties performing punishment;

6) "The central bodies":

for the Republic of Kazakhstan - state body which according to the national legal system of the Republic of Kazakhstan makes decisions on transfer of persons condemned to imprisonment for further serving sentence;

for Ukraine - the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

2. Concerning execution of this Agreement competent authorities of Contracting Parties communicate with each other through the central bodies.

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