Principles of International Cooperation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
wherever they ,are committed, shall be subject to investigation and the persons against whom t!tere is evidence that they have committed such cnmes shall be subject to tracing, arrest, trial and, if found guilty, to punishment.
2
Every State has the right to try its own nationals for war crimes or crimes against humanity.
3
States shall co-operate with each other on a bilateral and multilateral basis with a view to halting and preventing war crirnes and crimes against hurnanity, and shall take the domestic and international rneasures necessary for that purpose.
4
States shaH assist each other in detecting,
arresting and bringing to tria! peTsons suspected of
having cornmitted such crimes and, if they are found guilty, in punishing thern.
5
Persons against whom there is evidence that they have committed war crimes and crirnes against humanity shrall be subject to tria! and, if found guilty, to punishment, as a general rule in the countries in which they committed those crimes. In that connexion, States shall co-operate on questions of extrnditing such persons.
6
States shaU co-operate with each other in the collection of information and evidence which would he,lp to bring to tria! the persons indicated in paragraph 5 above and shall exchange such inforrnation.
7
In accordance with article 1 of the Declaration on Territorial Asylum of 14 December 1967,25 States shall not grant asylum to any person with respect to whom there are serious reasons for considering that he has committed a crirne against peace, a war crime or a crime against humanity.
8
States shal! not take any legislative or other measures which may be prejudicial to the international obligations they have assumed in regard to the detection, arrest, extradition and punishment of persons guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
9
In co-operating with a vicw to the detection,
arrest and extradition of persons against whom there is evidence that they have cornmitted war crimes and crirnes against humanity and, if found guilty,
their punishment, States shall act in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the Unitcd Nations 24See A/9136.
25 Resolution 2312 (XXII).
and of the Declaration on Principies of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.26
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