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Uganda, Sudan to Renew Treaty

New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
April 17, 2004
Posted to the web April 19, 2004

By Jude Etyang
Kampala
UGANDA and Sudan were yesterday set to sign an agreement to update the 1964
extradition treaty.
The treaty is among the draft bilateral agreements proposed at the joint
ministerial commission talks at Hotel Africana Kampala.
The two-day meeting aimed at reviving the joint ministerial commission which
collapsed in 1995 is considering several bilateral draft agreements in various
sectors including security, trade, immigration and education.
Acting foreign affairs minister Tom Butime and Sudanese foreign minister Dr.
Mustafa Osman Ismail will sign the agreement after adopting reports from the
four delegate-committees.
The Sudanese director of military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Majoub Sharfi and
Sudanese state minister for international co-operation Ishraq Sayed Mahmoud
were among the 18-member Sudanese delegation that attended the talks.
Updating of the extradition treaty is among the recommendations in the
preliminary report of a committee formed to discuss and draft legal agreements
on security, refugees, immigration and administration of justice.

   

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