IAP Opens 4th Annual Conference & General Meeting

The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) convened its 4th annual meeting and general meeting in Beijing on September 5, with more than 500 prosecutors from 85 countries and regions attending.

Li Peng, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, held talks with IAP presidents and attorneys general before the meeting, and later delivered a speech at the opening ceremony.

����Earmonn M. Barnes, IAP president, said at the meeting that, with the globalization of crime, prosecutors must now cooperate with each other, and governments should produce unified codes for crime control and prevention, he said.

����The six-day IAP meeting will focus on the crimes of fraud and corruption.

����The IAP was founded in June 1995 in Vienna, and the Chinese Association of Prosecutors was one of the founders. It now has 58 member organizations and more than 600 individual members. The organization's purpose is to promote prosecutorial rights, supervise criminal proceedings, and increase cooperation among prosecutors and legal institutions.

����The association has played an active role in promoting cooperation among prosecutors to curb violence within their own countries and international and organized crime. (Xinhua)