C A C U A TO R S   
   Ratification of the Convention of the United Nations   
 Nations against Transnational Organized   
 crime and the protocols   
 (Protocol on Prevention and termination of trade   
 people, especially women and children, and punishment   
 for her and the Protocol against the Illicit   
 Migrants on land, sea and floods)   
   (Information of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (VR), 2004, N 19, pp. 263)   
  
 I. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has a:   
 1. United Nations Convention against Torture   
Transnational Organized Crime   995_789  )  (Next-   
Convention), signed on behalf of Ukraine in m.  Palermo on December 12   
2000 (added *), to ratify with such reservations and   
Statements:   
 Article 13, paragraph 6:   
 Convention (s)   995_789  )  apply only if the conditions are   
adherence to constitutional principles and fundamental principles   
Ukraine's legal system;   
 Under article 2, paragraph (b):   
 In Ukrainian criminal law, the notion is "serious"   
The crime "meets the notion of" severe "and" particularly grave crime ".   
With this severe crime, it is a crime that provides this kind of   
penalty, as a prison sentence of at least five and not more   
Ten Years (Part Four of Article 12 of the Criminal Code)   
Ukraine (   2341-14  ), and especially the serious crime-for which   
have a kind of punishment as a prison sentence   
over ten years or life imprisonment (part of the fifth   
Article 12 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine);   
 Article 16, paragraph 5 (a):   
 Ukraine declares that the Convention (   995_789  )  is legal   
The basis for the issuance of extradition   
request from the issuance of the member state of this Convention, with which   
No extradition treaty;   
 Article 18, paragraph 13:   
 Central authorities in Ukraine who rely on   
the authority under paragraph 13 of Article 18 of the Convention (   995_789  ),   
is the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (regarding judicial decisions) and the General   
Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine (procedural actions during investigation)   
Criminal cases);   
 Article 18, paragraph 14:   
 Requests for legal assistance and documents added,   
should be sent to Ukraine together with a witnessed translation of   
Ukrainian, Russian, English or French if they are   
Not composed of these languages;   
 Article 26, paragraph 3:   
 The provisions of paragraph 3 shall not be extended to the organizer or   
The head of the criminal organization on their release from   
criminal liability.  According to the Constitution of Ukraine   
(Part of the second article 255 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine)   
(   2341-14  )  Persons assigned to criminal responsibility   
regardless of the conditions predicted by Article 26 of the Convention (   995_789  ).   
 2. Protocol on prevention and termination of trafficking in persons,   
especially women and children, and the punishment for her, which complement   
United Nations Convention against Transnational   
Organized crime (   995_791  ), signed on behalf of   
Ukraine in.  New York, 15 November 2001   
(*)   
 3. Protocol against illegal import of migrants by land, sea and sea   
complementing the United Nations Convention against the   
Transnational Organized Crime   995_790  ),   
Signed on behalf of Ukraine in  New York, 15 November   
In 2001, to ratify it (*).   
 II.  This Act takes effect from the day of its publication.   
  
 President of Ukraine   
 Um ...  Kiev, 4 February 2004   
 N 1433-IV   
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* To be added to the original.