Cairo hosts a meeting on fighting organized crimes

Meetings of experts and representatives for 12 Arab states started in Cairo on Sunday to draft the Arab agreement to fighting organized crime through national borders.

During its four- day deliberations the committee discusses drafting an Arab agreement to fight crime through borders to be a general framework for judicial and security co-operation among the Arab states, as an implementation to the decision of the Arab ministers of justice of 1998. This draft agreement will be proposed to the next meeting of the Arab ministers of justice due to be held in November in Cairo for endorsement.

This draft agreement aims at strengthening common Arab co-operation in security and legal fields in order to prevent organized crime through Arab borders through taking necessary measures to this effect.

The meetings are attended by experts from Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Sudan.