The Azerbaijani delegation headed by first Deputy Azerbaijan`s Public Prosecutor Rustam Usubov is expected to take part at the second Regional Conference of Public Prosecutors of Central, East European, and Middle Asian Countries to be held in Kiev on September 21, 2006, Vugar Aliyev, Chief of the Press-Service of the Public Prosecutor`s office told Trend today.
The Conference is organized by the Public Prosecutor`s Office of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Lawyers Association under the aegis of the International Prosecutors Association. The delegations from over 25 countries and representatives of a number of the authoritative and influential international organizations like UN, Council of Europe, CIS Member-States` Public Prosecutors Coordination Council, and other ones are expected to participate at the conference.
The main topic of the forthcoming conference is the international cooperation of the Public Prosecutors` Offices in the field of the legal aid rendering in criminal cases. The participants of the conference will discuss the role and authorities of the international organizations, including the professional unions of prosecutors, the assistance to the national bodies of the countries in the criminal investigation of transnational criminality, as well as issues on the extradition of criminals, the granting of the international legal aid, including measures against the washing out of money gained from the criminal activity and the financing of terrorism.