A high level delegation from Costa Rica visited UNODC’s Headquarters in Vienna, Austria from September 22 to 24, 2009. The delegation was composed by the President of the Supreme Court, the President of the Third Room of the Supreme Court, the Attorney General of Costa Rica, the Vice minister of the Presidency in Matters of Security and Director of Intelligence and National Security, the Vice minister of Public Security; the Representative and President of the Special Permanent Commission of Drug Trafficking of the Legislative Assembly, and the Representative and Member of the Commission of Civic Safety of the Legislative Assembly. This delegation carried out working sessions at the headquarters of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with representatives from UNODC and the CICTE Secretariat.

The visit’s main objective was to advance in the process of ratification of the universal instruments against terrorism as well as to support the implementation process of the legislation against terrorism recently adopted by Costa Rica. The visit also aimed to strengthen the cooperation among Costa Rica and UNODC and the CICTE Secretariat in this process.

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