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19Jul10

Information provided by Cyprus on the scope of universal jurisdiction in accordance with General Assembly resolution 64/117

To the Secretary-General
of the United Nations
United Nations Headquarters
New York

For the attention of the
Office of Legal Affairs
Codification Division

Ref.: 24.11.001.007.012

The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations presents his compliments to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and further to the latter's Note of 8 January 2010 with reference LA/COD/59 has the honour to hereby submit the following in respect of the implementation of provisions of General Assembly resolution 64/117 of 16 December 2009 entitled "The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction":

Article 5.1(e) of the Cyprus Criminal Code, Cap. 154, states the following:

5.1 (e) The Criminal Code and any other law which prescribes a criminal offence, shall apply to all offences which have been committed in any foreign country by any person, if the offence:

    (i) is treason or an offence against the security of the Republic or the Constitutional Order, or (ii) piracy, or

    (iii) is connected to the currency of the Republic, or

    (iv) concerns illegal trade in dangerous drugs, or

    (v) is one of the offences which, pursuant to any International Treaty of Agreement binding on the Republic, the Law of the Republic is applicable, or

    (vi) has, as one of its elements, an act or omission against immovable property situated in the Republic, including conspiracy or attempt, or incitement, or attempt to incite another to commit an offence which has, as one of its elements, an act or omission against immovable property situated in the Republic.

The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations avails himself of this opportunity to renew to the Secretary-General of the United Nations the assurances of his highest consideration.

[Source: The Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations, New York, 19Jul10. Published by the Sixth Committee (Legal) of the General Assembly of the United Nations.]

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