TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 04-130 

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INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT 

Article 98 

 Agreement between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

and TURKMENISTAN 

Signed at Ashgabat December 25, 2003 
 NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

 Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966 

(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)—

“. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued 

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent 

 evidence . . . of the treaties, international agreements other than 

treaties, and proclamations by the President of such treaties and 

international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime 

jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of the 

United States, and of the several States, without any further proof 

or authentication thereof.” 
TURKMENISTAN 

International Criminal Court: Article 98 

Agreement signed at Ashgabat December 25, 2003; 

 Entered into force January 30, 2004. 
Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and

the Government of Turkmenistan regarding the surrender of persons to

the International Criminal Court

The Government of the United States of America and the Government

of Turkmenistan, hereinafter "the Parties,"

Reaffirming the importance of bringing to justice those who commit

genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes,

Recalling that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court done

at Rome on July 17, 1998 by the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of

Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court is

intended to complement and not supplant national criminal jurisdiction,

Considering that the Parties have each expressed their intention to

investigate and to prosecute where appropriate acts within the jurisdiction of

the International Criminal Court alleged to have been committed by their

officials, employees, military personnel or other nationals,

Bearing in mind Article 98 of the Rome Statute,

Hereby agree as follows:

1.. For purposes of this Agreement, "persons" are current or former

Government officials, employees (including contractors), or military personnel

or nationals of one Party.

2. Persons of one Party present in the territory of the other shall not, absent

the express consent of the first Party,

(a) be surrendered or transferred by any means to the International

Criminal Court for any purpose, or

(b) be surrendered or transferred by any means to any other entity or third

country, or expelled to a third country, for the purpose of surrender to or

transfer to the International Criminal Court.

3. When the Government of the United States of America extradites,

surrenders, or otherwise transfers a person of Turkmenistan to a third country,

the Government of the United States of America will not agree to the surrender
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or transfer of that person to the International Criminal Court by the third

country, absent the express consent of the Government of Turkmenistan.

4. When the Government of Turkmenistan extradites, surrenders, or otherwise

transfers a person of the United States of America to a third country, the

Government of Turkmenistan will not agree to the surrender or transfer of that

person to the International Criminal Court by a third country, absent the

express consent of the Government of the United States of America:

5. Each Party agrees in accordance with its international legal obligations not

to knowingly facilitate, agree, or cooperate with the efforts of any third party or

country to extradite, surrender, or transfer a person of the other Party to the

International Criminal Court.

6. This Agreement shall enter into force upon an exchange of notes confirming

that each Party has completed the necessary domestic legal requirements to

bring the Agreement into force. It will remain in force until one year after the

date on which one Party notifies the other of its intent to terminate this

Agreement. The provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply with.

respect to any act occurring, or any allegation arising, before the effective date

of termination.

Done at Ashgabat, in duplicate, this 25th day of December in the year 2003, in

the English and Russian languages. In case of differences in interpretation,

the English language text shall prevail.
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