Memorandum of Understanding on the pursuit of agreements on judicial co-operation between the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Government of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Confirming the friendship and strong ties between the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Noting the desire of both sides to strengthen judicial co-operation, in the context of our increasing joint efforts in the field of justice and home affairs, and specifically of our recently enhanced co-operation on counter-terrorism.

The participants have reached an understanding that they will shortly commence negotiations on the following matters:

• Mutual legal assistance in the field of criminal law
• Mutual legal assistance in the field of civil and commercial law
• Extradition, and Prisoner Transfer

The two sides will work to conclude the negotiations and prepare these agreements in their final form; in the case of the last-mentioned agreement, working on the basis of the British model agreement on Prisoner Transfer presented recently to the Secretary for Justice during his visit to the United Kingdom of 22-24 May - to be signed within a period not exceeding 12 months from the date of signing this MoU.

The UK Government will seek to obtain the agreement of all three jurisdictions within the United Kingdom in each of those cases.