Syrian and Iranian Ministries of Justice sign MoU on cooperation
Today, the Syrian and Iranian Ministries of Justice signed a memorandum of understanding, with the aim of exchanging experiences in the field of preparing national legislation and regulatory legal procedures, and developing the scientific and professional side.
The memorandum stipulates the necessity of exchanging experts between the two ministries in everything related to the judiciary and the law, and information between justice bodies and government delegations to get acquainted with the activities of each of them.
The memorandum emphasized the need to develop the scientific and professional side through organizing and holding seminars, lectures, case studies, and other similar activities to improve professional education, train employees and experts in the field of justice, provide mutual support to the educational institutions of the two sides, conduct international legal courses, and implement postgraduate programs and vocational training for employees of legal entities.
According to the memorandum, the two sides will cooperate in developing the system of legal services to enforce the rights, freedoms and legal interests of citizens, and in exchanging expertise in human rights, combating corruption, children’s rights and other basic issues in international law.
In a statement to reporters following the signing of the memorandum, Minister of Justice Judge Ahmed Al-Sayed stressed the importance of the memorandum, which includes the exchange of information and expertise, access to all that is new in the legal and judicial fields, conducting discussions between the two countries, in addition to facilitating transactions, holding workshops and exchanging official delegations.
For his part, Iranian Minister of Justice Amin Hossein Rahimi considered that the signing of the memorandum facilitates the implementation of previously concluded agreements between the two ministries.
- al-Mohammad