Bern: Qatar signed yesterday with the Swiss Confederation a bilateral cooperation agreement on the criminal and training matters.
The agreement was signed by Qatar’s Attorney-General H E Dr Ali bin Fetais Al Marri and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation, Pascale Baeriswyl. The agreement focuses on cooperation between the two countries in the field of criminal matters.
The agreement also focuses on information exchange and ways to implement requests for judicial cooperation in various criminal cases, in addition to the exchange of expertise and training in the field of public prosecution work, as well as identifying the judicial systems of Qatar and Switzerland.
This cooperation comes within the framework of strengthening judicial, legal and criminal matters cooperation between the two friendly countries, especially in relation to fighting terrorism and its financing, as well as other issues of common concern.
