US embassy cable - 05DUBLIN889

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U.S.-IRELAND AGREEMENTS ON EXTRADITION/MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE SIGNED

Identifier: 05DUBLIN889
Wikileaks: View 05DUBLIN889 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Dublin
Created: 2005-07-15 16:16:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Tags: PREL CJAN KCRM PTER
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

UNCLAS DUBLIN 000889 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL, CJAN, KCRM, PTER 
SUBJECT: U.S.-IRELAND AGREEMENTS ON EXTRADITION/MUTUAL 
LEGAL ASSISTANCE SIGNED 
 
In a July 14 public ceremony attended by the press, the 
Ambassador and Irish Minister of Justice, Equality, and Law 
Reform, Michael McDowell, signed U.S.-Irish agreements on 
extradition and mutual legal assistance.  Police Commissioner 
Noel Conroy, Attorney General Rory Brady, and Justice 
Department Secretary General Sean Aylward also attended the 
signing ceremony.  The instruments are part of a sequence of 
bilateral agreements that the United States is pursuing with 
all EU Member States, in order to implement twin U.S.-EU 
agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance signed 
in 2003.  The new U.S.-Irish agreements update and supplement 
a 1983 bilateral extradition treaty and a 2001 bilateral 
mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT, for which the Irish 
ratification process has not been completed).  Press reports 
on the signing were positive, noting that the agreements 
would facilitate cooperation between U.S. and Irish law 
enforcement authorities in combatting crime and, in 
particular, terrorism. 
KENNY 

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