Kuwait city: The ministerial Arab Justice Council concluded its 41st session on Wednesday after taking decisions partly designed to revamp pan-Arab judicial cooperation. The officials took several "significant decisions" during the session, namely boosting cooperation between the council's secretariat general and its counterpart of the Arab Interior Council through formation of joint committees, said Nof Al-Gabandi, the Kuwaiti justice assistant undersecretary for technical and administrative affairs, in a statement to KUNA.
According to Kuwait News Agency, these new commissions will be tasked with amending the draft Arab guidance law for regulating records of terrorists and terrorism entities, updating the Riyadh treaty for judicial cooperation (1983), and drawing up an Arab strategy for combating organized crime in coordination with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Al-Gabandi highlighted that the Riyadh Arab Agreement for Judicial Cooperation, signed in 1983, is a major multilateral treaty among the Arab League states aimed at facilitating legal and judicial assistance, cooperation, and enforcement of judgments across member nations.
The conferees also decided to support the Sudanese ministry of justice in upgrading its institutions through know-how exchange and the dispatch of experts to the nation. This initiative is part of broader efforts to enhance judicial cooperation and capacity-building among Arab states.