Embassy Press Release

September 10, 2007

Today, Ambassador Taubman and Minister of Justice Tudor-Alexandru Chiuariu signed two legal instruments to significantly modernize our law enforcement relationship with Romania: a new bilateral treaty on extradition, and the protocol to the May 26, 1999 Treaty between the U.S. and Romania on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. The Extradition Treaty replaces the outdated 1924 extradition treaty and 1936 supplementary treaty currently in force.

These instruments will enable our police and prosecutors to cooperate more effectively to bring criminals to justice, and in particular better to combat international terrorism. Both instruments are part of a sequence of bilateral agreements that the United States is in the process of concluding with all twenty-seven European Union member states, in order to implement twin agreements on extradition and mutual legal assistance signed with the European Union itself in 2003. Romania will be the twenty-sixth EU member to sign these implementing agreements with the U.S.

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