(1) Extradition is the formal surrender of a 
person by one State to another State for prosecution 
or punishment. 
(2) Refusal by other nations to extradite to the 
United States fugitives within their jurisdiction who 
have been convicted of committing crimes on United 
States soil impedes the judicial process and under-
mines the rule of law. 
(3) The United States has bilateral extradition 
treaties with more than 100 nations and an extra-
dition agreement with the European Union. 
(4) Principle X of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act 
requires that the 57 Organization for Security and 
Co-operation in Europe participating States, ‘‘fulfill 
in good faith their obligations under international 
law, both those obligations arising from the gen-
erally recognized principles and rules of inter-
national law and those obligations arising from trea-
ties or other agreements, in conformity with inter-
national law, to which they are parties’’. 
(5) The failure to bring criminal fugitives to 
justice in the United States is an affront to the vic-
tims of those crimes. 
(6) The refusal of Portugal, a close ally and 
good friend of the United States, to extradite George 
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Wright, convicted of the 1962 murder of Walter 
Patterson, fugitive from justice since his 1970 es-
cape from the Bayside State Prison in New Jersey, 
is a deplorable example of a failure to extradite. 
(7) The refusal to extradite George Wright is 
emblematic of a number of such refusals from Amer-
ican friends and allies, such that United States poli-
cies and efforts to secure extradition and the extra-
dition policies of countries from which the United 
States seeks extradition bear further examination. 
(8) Such examination will be promoted by the 
issuance of a public report on the status of extra-
dition requests by the United States and related 
matters. 
SEC. 3. REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 270 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a report 
on— 
(1) the number of fugitives currently residing in 
other countries whose extradition is sought by the 
United States and a list of those countries; 
(2) diplomatic and other efforts, if any, the 
United States has undertaken to secure the return 
of such fugitives; 
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(3) the average length of time these cases have 
been outstanding; 
(4) how many of these cases have been resolved 
to the satisfaction of the United States; 
(5) factors that have been barriers to the reso-
lution of these cases; and 
(6) information on the number of United States 
citizens whose extradition has been sought by other 
countries during the past 5 years, a list of those 
countries seeking extradition, and the outcomes of 
those requests. 
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
a classified annex if necessary. 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate. 
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