Macau and South Korea signed yesterday an agreement on the transfer of fugitive offenders and an agreement on mutual legal assistance, enhancing judicial cooperation between the two sides, according to a statement by the Secretariat for Administration and Justice.
The signing ceremony of the Agreement on the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders and the Agreement concerning Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of Korea was held at Government Headquarters yesterday.
The agreements were signed by Secretary for Administration and Justice Sónia Chan Hoi Fan and South Korea’s Hong Kong-based consul general, Kim Weon-jin, who is simultaneously accredited to Macau.
Secretary for Administration and Justice Sónia Chan Hoi Fan (front, third from right) and Consul General of the Republic of Korea Kim Weon-jin (front, second from left) shake hands after yesterday’s signing ceremony of two judicial cooperation agreements, as other local, mainland and South Korean officials look on, including Wang Dong, deputy commissioner of the Commission of the Foreign Ministry of the PRC in Macau. Photo: Kristy Chan
