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Extradition

Asked whether the Prime Minister was prepared to suspend the extradition treaty with the US until Senate ratification, the PMOS pointed out that we had the exact same situation with the EU as with the US, as such that was the spirit with which we approached this issue. Put that it was not reciprocal with the US, the PMOS said that we had expressed our view in the hope that it would be ratified. People should not pretend that this was a US specific issue as we had the same relationship with the rest of the EU.

Asked whether the Prime Minister had looked into the case of the Natwest 3 extradition, the PMOS said that he could not comment on a specific case, but in generality people could be extradited to the EU in the same way as they could to the US. In answer to further questions, the PMOS said that we sought to observe the usual legal sensitivities around cases and not interfere in legal processes. There were legal processes that had to be gone through and they were ongoing.

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