The United States has been asking for Swiss legal help in the matter under a treaty on mutual assistance in criminal cases that was signed in Bern in 1973, and entered into force in 1977.
The Monacan authorities said they acted in accordance with European convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters and the UN convention against transnational organised crime.
That is why we strongly support the multilateral convention on mutual assistance in tax matters which will assist information exchange with those developing countries that join the convention".
Gijs de Vries, the Dutch government's representative at the convention, argues that, if the current proposals go through, "the vast majority of national criminal law will have to be harmonised in the very near future...harmonisation of national law cannot be limited to mutual assistance in combating crime.
Israel is after all a party to the 1959 European convention on mutual assistance in criminal matters.
This would be "anchored by a clause of mutual assistance" in case of terrorist attack or other disaster in other words, a bit like the NATO treaty.
"If you ask the Mafia for a favour, you are liable to get definitively caught in a relationship of mutual assistance". Mangano was later convicted of Mafia association and drug trafficking.
The schedule of work had for its part been fixed in an Agreement on mutual assistance signed by the two parties on 16 September 1977, at the same time as the Treaty itself.
Mr Coogle has little faith in the mutual assistance treaty: "How can the UK expect Jordan to honour its promises when it fails to abide by its own laws?" Muhhaden – like many Jordanians – believes Abu Qatada should remain in the UK.
The Soviets, who had already created a network of mutual assistance treaties in the Eastern Bloc by 1949, established a formal alliance therein, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
After signing the German Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation, the Soviet Union forced the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to allow it to station Soviet troops in their countries under pacts of "mutual assistance".
