Prosecution Service of Georgia hosts 27th annual conference and general meeting of International Association of Prosecutors on September 26-29
On September 25-29, the Prosecution Service of Georgia is hosting the 27th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) on the topic of Global Phenomena Reshaping Criminal Justice Systems.
According to the Prosecution Service, 300 prosecutors from 60 countries and representatives of the relevant units of the UN, EU, Council of Europe and United States Department of Justice (DoJ) working in the criminal justice field and top experts of the said field will attend the international prosecutorial conference scheduled to be held in Tbilisi.
Within the scope of the four-day conference, sessions and workshops will be held on various important issues such as international cooperation directly through prosecution authorities; COVID, Institutional Challenges and Response; Evolution of Cyber-Crime Typologies; Challenges Obtaining Digital Evidence from Abroad; Money Laundering through Virtual Assets; and so on.
Within the framework of the event, the President of EUROJUST Ladislav Hamran, the European Chief Prosecutor (EPPO) Laura Kövesi, the Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Nazhat Shameem Khan will attend the conference on special invitation of the Prosecutor General of Georgia Irakli Shotadze. Bilateral meetings of the Prosecutor General of Georgia is planned with the invited guests. Moreover, the Prosecution Service of Georgia and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office will sign a mutual cooperation memorandum to further enhance cooperation between themselves.
Additionally, within the scope of the international conference, the Prosecutor General of Georgia Irakli Shotadze will hold bilateral meetings with prosecutors and representatives of agencies of various countries.
International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) was founded at the United Nations Office at Vienna in 1995 and it is the only international organization of prosecutors that unites prosecution agencies of various countries around the globe and individual prosecutors. Over 183 agencies of 180 countries, as well as individual member-prosecutors have joined the international association.
The Prosecution Service of Georgia has been an organizational member of the International Association of Prosecutors since 2011, however, it has been closely cooperating with the Association since 2014. A representative of the Prosecution Service of Georgia was elected as a member of the managing body of the IAP – Executive Committee – in May 2018. And therefore, the Prosecution Service of Georgia is engaged in the management of the Association.
Within the framework of the close cooperation between the Prosecution Service of Georgia and the IAP, the Prosecution Service of Georgia hosted the 8th Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Conference of International Association of Prosecutors on the topic of recovery of “Criminal Proceeds and Cybercrime” for the first time on June 27-28, 2017. 25 general prosecutors from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, their deputies and other high-ranking officials attended the conference.
Objectives of the IAP are as follows: setting and raising standards of professional conduct and ethics for prosecutors worldwide; promoting the rule of law, fairness, impartiality and respect for human rights and improving and intensifying international co-operation between prosecuting authorities of various states to combat crime.
Attorney General's Office of the Argentine Republic hosted the last global meeting of the International Association of Prosecutors in 2019, while the Crown Prosecution Service of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland will be hosting the 2023 conference.
The Prosecution Service of Georgia will continue close cooperation with International Association of Prosecutors and other international organizations in future as well.
