Taiwan will seek to sign extradition treaty with U.S.: President
ROC Central News Agency
2009/03/30 13:20:00
By Deborah Kuo
Taipei, March 30 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said Monday that Taiwan will seek to sign an extradition treaty with the United States in light of the difficulties experienced in extraditing suspects from one country to the other.
Taiwan will also pursue similar agreements with China, and later on with other countries, to allow for the extradition of crime suspects and convicted felons, Ma said.
The president made the remarks in a keynote speech at the opening of the 10th Asia-Pacific annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) at the Grand Hotel in Taipei City.
Noting that Taiwan is not a member of Interpol and maintains formal diplomatic relations with only 23 nations in the world, Ma said that Taiwan's hosting of the IACP conference will help to boost the country's bilateral exchanges with other nations and strengthen its cross-border crime surveillance.
Established in the United States in 1893, the IACP is the world's oldest and largest nonprofit membership organization of police executives, with over 20,000 members in more than 89 different countries, Ma said.
Over the past two years, he said, there has been an obvious change in crime trends in Taiwan, with theft cases declining by 15 percent and cases involving violence and assault down 20 percent, while fraud and bicycle thefts have increased.
At the conference, Henry Lee, an internationally renowned U.S. forensic scientist with Taiwan roots, was scheduled to deliver a speech later in the day, titled Trends and Challenges in Combating Emerging Trans-national Crimes.
The two-day conference is being attended by 220 law enforcement officials from 31 nations.
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