Handing over: Rainer Louhanapessy (second left), Charge d’Affaires of the Indonesian Embassy/Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna, shows the ratified instrument of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimes (UNCTOC) to the United Nations legal adviser from the Office of the Legal Affairs, Annebeth Rosenboom (third right), before handing over to her in Vienna recently, while Foreign Ministry’s director for international security and disarmament Desra Percaya (left) and other UN staff members look on. Courtesy of the Indonesian Permanent Mission to the UN in Vienna.
Indonesia has handed over the document of the ratification of the UN transnational crimes convention to the United Nations recently, during the 18th Session on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna, Indonesia’s Permanent Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Austria says.
Under the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crimes (UNCTOC), Jakarta can seek international assistance in dealing with money laundering, corruption and terrorism.
The document was handed over by the Indonesian Mission’s Charge d’Affaires Rainer Luhanapessy to the UN’s Treaty Section legal adviser Annebeth Rosenboom.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry director for international security and disarmament Desra Percaya was also present at the handing over ceremony.
The convention, which was approved by the House of Representatives in January this year, will have binding power 90 days after the instrument was presented.
The UNCTOC will be an additional instrument to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), ASEAN Mutual Legal Assistance and other existing bilateral agreements that have been signed by Indonesia.(JP)
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