China calls for closer law enforcement cooperation in East Asia

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China calls for closer law enforcement cooperation in East Asia

Faced with increasing transnational crime, East Asia should improve law enforcement cooperation to maintain the region's peace and development, a Chinese high official said Saturday in Bangkok.

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Faced with increasing transnational crime, East Asia should improve law enforcement cooperation to maintain the region's peace and development, a Chinese high official said Saturday in Bangkok.

It's an important and creative move for East Asia countries to combat the growing cross-border crime by convening the Associationof Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan and Korea (10+3) ministerial meeting on transnational crime, the first of its kind, China's Executive Vice Minister of Public Security Tian Qiyusaid at a meeting here Saturday morning.

The cooperation 10+3 mechanism would help East Asia "effectively combat transnational crime, reduce their disturbances to the regional cooperation process, and maintain peace and development in the region," said the vice minister.

To fully explore the mechanism's potential on fighting against translational crime, China wishes to put forward its own initiatives for 10+3 cooperation against translational crime, added Tian.

The initiatives included proposals for establishing a 10+3 institutional framework on combating translational crime, identifying priority areas and lead shepherd countries, designating executive organs and opening hotlines, formulating work plans or programs on information sharing and personnel exchange and training, and promoting the practice of police liaison officers.

The vice minister also pointed out that ASEAN 10+3 cooperation on combating translational crime was just taking its first step.

"There is still a long way to go before we can put in place a fully operational and effective 10+3 cooperation mechanism againsttranslational crime," he said.

China has improved its cooperation with ASEAN countries to combat translational crime since it first proposed ASEAN plus three ministerial meeting on the issue at the sixth ASEAN plus three summit in 2002.

In November 2002, the two sides declared a joint declaration, vowing to improve cooperation in fighting translational crimes such as drug trafficking, illegal immigration, sea piracy, terrorism, arms smuggling, money laundry, international economic crime and cyber crime.

China and ASEAN were expected to sign a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of non-traditional security issues at the end of the one-day meeting.

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