For the purposes of this Convention:

The term "person enjoying international protection" means:

(a)

Any head of state, including each member of a collegiate body fulfilling under the constitution of the State, the functions of Head of State; of any Head of Government or of any Minister for Foreign Affairs, when such A person is in a foreign state, as well as members of his or her accompanying family;

(b)

Any official, official or official of a State and any official, official or other official of an intergovernmental organization, who, on the date and place where an offence is committed against his or her person, Its official premises, private domicile or means of transport, is entitled in accordance with international law to special protection against any infringement of his person, liberty or dignity, as well as members of his family who are members His household;

2. The term "alleged offender" means any person against whom there is sufficient evidence to establish prima facie that the person has committed one or more of the offences set out in section 2 or has participated in it.

1. Intentional fact:

(a)

To commit murder, abduction or other attack against the person or freedom of an internationally protected person;

(b)

To commit, by means of violence, against the official premises, private accommodation or means of transport of a person enjoying international protection, an attack likely to endanger his person or his freedom;

(c)

Threaten to commit such an attack;

(d)

Attempt to commit such an attack; or

(e)

To participate as an accomplice in such an attack is considered by any State Party to be an offence under its domestic law.

(2) Each State Party shall make such offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their gravity.

(3) Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article shall in no way prejudice the obligations under international law to the States Parties to take all appropriate measures to prevent further harm to the person, liberty or The dignity of an internationally protected person.

1. Each State Party shall take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing the offences provided for in Article 2 in the following cases:

(a)

Where the offence is committed in the territory of that State or on board a ship or aircraft registered in that State;

(b)

Where the alleged offender has the nationality of that State;

(c)

Where the offence is committed against a person enjoying international protection within the meaning of Article 1, who enjoys that status in accordance with the functions performed by the person on behalf of that State.

(2) Each State Party shall also take the necessary measures to establish its jurisdiction for the purpose of knowing such offences in the case where the alleged offender is on its territory and where it does not extradite him, in accordance with Article 8, to any of the States referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article.

(3) This Convention does not exclude criminal jurisdiction exercised under domestic law.

The States Parties shall cooperate in the prevention of the offences provided for in Article 2, in particular:

(a)

Taking all possible measures to prevent the preparation, in their respective territories, of such offences intended to be committed within or outside their territory;

(b)

Exchanging information and coordinating administrative and other measures, where appropriate, to prevent the commission of such offences.

(1) The State Party in whose territory one or more of the offences provided for in article 2 has been committed, if it has reason to believe that an alleged offender has fled from its territory, communicates to all other States Directly or through the Secretary-General of the United Nations, all relevant facts concerning the offence committed and all the information before it concerning the identity of the alleged perpetrator of the The offence.

(2) Where one or more of the offences provided for in Article 2 have been committed against a person enjoying international protection, any State Party which has information concerning the victim as well as the circumstances of The offence shall endeavour to communicate them, in accordance with the conditions laid down in its domestic legislation, in good time and in complete form, to the State Party on whose behalf that person was performing his duties.

1. If it considers that the circumstances so warrant, the State Party on whose territory the alleged offender is located shall take the appropriate measures in accordance with its domestic law to ensure the presence of the alleged offender. The offence for the purpose of prosecution or extradition. Such measures shall be notified without delay directly or through the Secretary-General of the United Nations:

(a)

The State in which the offence was committed;

(b)

To the State or States where the alleged perpetrator of the offence has the nationality or, if the latter is stateless, to the State in whose territory he permanently resides;

(c)

The State or States where the person enjoying international protection has the nationality or the name of which he or she carried out his or her duties;

(d)

To all other interested States; and

(e)

To the intergovernmental organization whose person with international protection is an official, an official person or an agent.

(2) Any person in respect of whom the measures referred to in paragraph 1 of this article are taken shall be entitled:

(a)

To communicate without delay with the competent representative closest to the State of which he is a national or who is otherwise entitled to protect his or her rights or, if the person is a stateless person, who is willing, on his or her request, to protect his or her Rights; and

(b)

To receive a visit from a representative of that State.

The State Party on whose territory the alleged perpetrator of the offence is located, if it does not extradite the offender, submits the case, without any exception and without undue delay, to its competent authorities for the exercise of criminal proceedings, Procedure in accordance with the law of that State.

In so far as the offences provided for in Article 2 do not appear on the list of extradition cases in an extradition treaty in force between the States Parties, they shall be considered to be included therein. States Parties undertake to understand these offences as extraditable offences in any extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

2. If a State Party which makes extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty is seized of a request for extradition by another State Party with which it is not bound by an extradition treaty, it may, if it decides to extradite, consider the present Convention as the legal basis for extradition in respect of such offences. Extradition shall be subject to the rules of procedure and other conditions laid down by the law of the requested State.

3. States Parties which do not make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty recognising such offences as constituting extradition cases subject to the rules of procedure and other conditions provided for by the law of the State Required.

4. Between States Parties, these offences are considered for the purpose of extradition as having been committed both in the place of their commission and in the territory of the States required to establish their jurisdiction under article 3, paragraph 1.

Any person against whom proceedings are instituted on the basis of one of the offences provided for in Article 2 shall enjoy the guarantee of fair treatment at all stages of the proceedings.

1. States Parties shall afford the widest measure of mutual legal assistance in any criminal proceedings relating to the offences set out in Article 2, including the communication of all the evidence before them, and Which are necessary for the purposes of the procedure.

(2) The provisions of paragraph 1 of this article shall not affect the obligations relating to mutual legal assistance stipulated in any other treaty.

The State Party in which criminal proceedings have been instituted against the alleged offender shall communicate the final result to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall inform the other States parties.

The provisions of this Convention shall not affect the application of the treaties on asylum, in force on the date of adoption of the said Convention, with regard to the States which are party to those treaties; but a State Party to the present Convention may not invoke those treaties in respect of another State Party to this Convention which is not a party to those treaties.

1. Any dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention which is not settled by negotiation shall be submitted to arbitration at the request of one of them. If, within six months after the date of the request for arbitration, the parties fail to agree on the organization of the arbitration, any one of them may refer the dispute to the International Court of Justice, in Filing a request in accordance with the Statute of the Court.

(2) Any State Party may, at the time of signing this Convention, ratify or accede to it, declare that it does not consider itself bound by the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article. The other States Parties shall not be bound by those provisions to a State Party which has formulated such a reservation.

(3) Any State Party which has made a reservation in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 of this article may at any time withdraw that reservation by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

This Convention shall be open for signature by all States, until 31 December 1974, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

This Convention shall be ratified. Instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

This Convention shall remain open for accession by any State. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

(1) This Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of deposit with the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession.

2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the Convention after the deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession, the Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the deposit by that State of its instrument of Ratification or accession.

1. Any State Party may denounce this Convention by written notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

(2) Denunciation shall take effect six months after the date on which the notification has been received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify all States, inter alia:

(a)

The signatures to this Convention and the deposit of instruments of ratification or accession in accordance with Articles 14, 15 and 16, as well as notifications made under Article 18.

(b)

The date on which this Convention enters into force, in accordance with Article 17.

The original of this Convention, of which the English, Chinese, Spanish, French and Russian texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit certified copies thereof to all States.

In witness whereof, The undersigned, duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed this Convention opened for signature in New York on 14 December 1973.

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