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RP-SPAIN TREATY

RP-SPAIN TREATY. TRANSFER OF SENTENCED PERSONS AGREEMENT (TSPA). ORDER OF PRESENTATION. BACKGROUND OF THE TREATY SALIENT PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE OF PRISONER SWAPS HUMANITARIAN/MORAL GROUNDS PUBLIC OPINION ON THE TREATY PEACE INITIATIVES OF THIS TREATY

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RP-SPAIN TREATY

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  1. RP-SPAIN TREATY TRANSFER OF SENTENCED PERSONS AGREEMENT (TSPA)

  2. ORDER OF PRESENTATION BACKGROUND OF THE TREATY SALIENT PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE OF PRISONER SWAPS HUMANITARIAN/MORAL GROUNDS PUBLIC OPINION ON THE TREATY PEACE INITIATIVES OF THIS TREATY HOW ARE PRISONER SWAPS FACILITATED NEGOTIATION BETWEEN PARTIES MEDIATION/CONCILIATION PROCESSES EFFECTED DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION/SUMMARY

  3. Background of the Treaty • Signed on May 18, 2007 • Substantially copied from the 1983 Strasbourg Convention on • Transfer of Sentenced Persons, promulgated by the Council of • Europe • Ratified by the Spanish Senate on November 6, 2007 • Ratified by the Philippine Senate via Senate Resolution No. 212 • Composed of 23 Articles • Department of Justice for both States is the designated central • authority;

  4. Salient Features of the Treaty • Purely Consensual (Based on Cooperation); • Aims to bring back a foreign prisoner into his or her • country of nationality and to serve the sentence • there; • Has a laudable humanitarian objective;

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