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YOUR TELNO 555 EXTRADITION: 10th ASIAN REGIONAL INTERPOL CONFERENCE
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Additional Mr Edwards
Legal Advisers
You may like to know that UAE have been pressing us
to conclude an extradition agreement for several years.
to a full agreeant
As an alternative they have also suggested a more restricted
arrangement excluding the extradition of British nationals
to the UAE.
2.
Although we have made it clear that we have no wish to
harbour their criminals, we have consistently rejected these
requests on the grounds that the differences between our
legal/penal systems are too great. However you will be
aware that when the Criminal Justice Act 1988 comes into
force, ad hoc extradition (i.e. extradition without a formal
treaty) will be theoretically possible
се
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although we have
warned the UAE authorities as recently as last October that,
again, differences in our judicial, legal and penal systems
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