Crime EU measures such as the European arrest warrant make it easier to return fugitives to face trial and to transfer prisoners to their home country.
Kelly said the letters to the on-the-runs, which also include fugitives such as Sinn Féin's former press director Rita O'Hare, had been a pragmatic and necessary move to push the peace process forward.
One of Britain's most notorious fugitives arrived in the UK today in an attempt to clear his name, 17 years after fleeing the country in a private jet.
Exploration of half-shades isn't part of Tarantino's mission statement – though the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds (with Waltz as a villainous "Jew hunter") at least invited audiences to consider the possibility that they would give up Jewish fugitives to save their own skins.
The law enforcement agency stresses that members of the public should report any sightings of the fugitives to Interpol or their national police force, and not approach them directly.
Related: Assata Shakur: from civil rights activist to FBI's most-wanted Jeff Rathke, a State Department spokesman, said Cuba had agreed to talks about fugitives including Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, who was granted asylum by Fidel Castro after she escaped from a US prison where she was serving a sentence for killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.
Robinson has said he was "incandescent" that he was not told that IRA fugitives wanted in connection with Troubles-related crimes – known as on-the-runs – could have been issued with backroom pardons following the Good Friday agreement in 1998.
Interpol's public appeal hopes to catch nine fugitives suspected of environmental crimes costing hundreds of millions of dollars, in a move to catapult the issue to the forefront of international law enforcement.
"We see the re-establishment of diplomatic relations and the reopening of an embassy in Havana as the means by which we'll be able, more effectively, to press the Cuban government on law enforcement issues such as fugitives.
4.36pm BST16 36 Afternoon summary The Police Service of Northern Ireland has revealed that 95 of the 228 IRA fugitives given "comfort" letters telling them they were not facing prosecution have been linked to 200 murders.
These days, I like to visit a restaurant there, set up by a British Ghanaian returnee, and eat Ghanaian food – or pizza, depending on my mood – alongside so many other fugitives from the polluted city, enjoying the cool mountain air.
