Libya’s Attorney General, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour met with the Director of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Antonia Marie De Meo and her accompanying delegation.
The meeting discussed UNICRI’s priorities including combating organized crime, illegal trafficking; tracking illicit financial flows, and improving the rule of law during the transitional period.
The attendees also reviewed training mechanisms, the promotion of technical assistance; and ways to conduct criminal justice research with the aim of analyzing criminal phenomena.
The meeting touched on the steps taken by Al-Sour to effectively strengthen the criminal justice system, enhance an understanding of the issues leading to crime. As well as ways to qualify members of the Attorney General Office to perform their job duties in an optimal manner.
They ended with identifying a point of contact through which information will be exchanged between the institute, and the Attorney General’s Office. This is to prepare a general framework to train members of Libya’s Public Prosecution and improve their capabilities.
On Tuesday, Al-Sour arrived in Brussels and met with his Belgian counterpart to discuss the issue of Libya’s frozen assets in Belgian banks.
He stressed the right and priority of the Libyan judicial authorities to protect the funds and investments of the Libyan state. He added that the Libyan judicial authorities, “have not, and will not tolerate any crime affecting the state funds.”
Al-Sour suggested to his Belgian counterpart the possibility of “reaching solutions that guarantee and enhance the fight against crime, corruption, and impunity.” As well as to “protect the interests of the two countries without prejudice, and affirm the sovereignty and independence of the judicial authorities in the two countries.”
The two also sides agreed to open prospects for joint investigation, and the exchange of information in ongoing investigations.