International Association of Prosecutors and EU Criminal Justice Cooperation Body Strengthen International Cooperation on 'Crimes Against Humanity'

Hamran, EUROJUST President, Shows Special Interest in Strengthening Cooperation with Korean Legal and Prosecutorial Authorities

Hwang Cheol-gyu, President of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP, left), and Radislav Hamran, President of the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (EUROJUST), are taking a commemorative photo after a bilateral meeting at the EUROJUST headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, on August 31./Photo by IAP

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Kyung-jun] The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) and the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (EUROJUST) have agreed to strengthen global cooperation on crimes against humanity and work closely together.

According to the IAP on the 11th, IAP President Hwang Cheol-gyu and EUROJUST President Ladislav Hamran held a bilateral meeting on August 31 at the EUROJUST headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands.

EUROJUST operates with the prosecution agencies of the 27 EU member states as full members, has established liaison cooperation and agreements with countries such as the United States, and maintains liaison cooperation relationships with countries including South Korea, thereby building a global cooperation framework.

At this meeting, the two organizations agreed to closely cooperate to ▲ strengthen global cooperation on crimes against humanity ▲ and advance international criminal cooperation among prosecutors.

In particular, President Hamran expressed special interest in cooperation between EUROJUST and South Korea, and reportedly conveyed his intention to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with South Korea’s Ministry of Justice and prosecution authorities.

The IAP and EUROJUST shared the recognition of the need for joint responses by both organizations to crimes against humanity such as war crimes, and agreed to work together to ensure that prosecution agencies worldwide actively cooperate with related international cooperation requests through universal jurisdiction.

EUROJUST President Hamran is scheduled to attend the 27th IAP Annual Conference held in Georgia at the end of September, where he will deliver a keynote speech on responses to war crimes.

The IAP expects that the two organizations will lead the advancement of international cooperation by collaborating, as EUROJUST, which has operated the most advanced model of international cooperation among prosecutors, is promoting full digitalization to enhance the speed and efficiency of the cooperation system, and the IAP, the world’s only organization of prosecutors, is set to launch a real-time information exchange system (PICP) at the end of this month based on its accumulated robust network.

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