INTERPOL reintegrates Syria into its information exchange system
The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) decided Thursday to reintegrate Syria into its information exchange system, after it suspended it in 2012 in the context of international sanctions against the government of Bashar al-Assad.
"In line with the recommendations of the General Secretariat, the Interpol Executive Committee decided to lift the corrective measures applied to Syria," the Lyon-based organization said in a statement.
These “corrective measures” applied to INTERPOL’s National Central Office in Syria since 2012 included banning access to the open information exchange system for all member states, according to the statement issued by the organization’s general secretariat.
Since 2012, “the General Secretariat of INTERPOL only received messages from Syria and they were sent to the senders in case they complied with the rules of Interpol,” according to the same source.
The statement explained that “the recommendation to lift the corrective measures came after the regular monitoring of messages received from the central office in Damascus,” adding that as a result, “the office located in Damascus, like other NCBs, can send messages directly to other member states and receive messages as well.”
The statement recalled that any member country could request the General Secretariat to issue a "red notice" that would not be published unless it respected "the organization's constitution (...), which strictly prohibits taking any action of a political, military, religious or ethnic nature."
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