San José – The Minister of Justice Andrea Orlando has signed two bilateral treaties on mutual penal legal assistance and extradition respectively, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Republic of Costa Rica, Manuel A. Gonzalez Sanz. The signing of these agreements has finally completed and updated the legal framework on criminal judicial cooperation between the two countries, currently consisting exclusively of the European Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons of 1983 and an outdated bilateral treaty on assistance and extradition from1873. Thw conclusion is a significant development towards the strengthening of judicial cooperation between the two countries, especially in the framework of the common objectives of combating organised crime, drug trafficking, corruption and terrorism and confirms the excellent level of relations between Rome and San Jose. (9Colonne)
