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The International Association of Prosecutors (IAP) was established in June 1995 at the United Nations Offices in Vienna and was formally inaugurated in Budapest at its first General Meeting in September 1996.
The main impetus leading to its formation was the rapid growth in serious transnational crime, particularly drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud. The need was perceived for greater international co-operation between prosecutors and for greater speed and efficiency in mutual assistance, asset tracking and other cross border issues.
The IAP is a non-governmental and non-political organisation. It is the first and only world association of prosecutors. The Association has over 130 organisational members – including associations of prosecutors, prosecuting agencies and crime prevention agencies – and together with its individual membership it represents over 200,000 prosecutors in over 130 countries.
• to promote the effective, fair, impartial and efficient prosecution of criminal offences;
• to respect and seek to protect human rights as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948;
• to promote high standards and principles in the administration of criminal justice, including procedures to guard against or address miscarriages, in support of the rule of law;
• to promote and enhance those standards and principles which are generally recognised internationally as necessary for the proper and independent prosecution of offences;
• to assist prosecutors internationally in the fight against organised or other serious crime in order to:
• to promote measures for the elimination of corruption in public administration;
• to promote the professional interests of prosecutors and to enhance the recognition of their crucial role in achieving criminal justice;
• to promote good relations between individual prosecutors and prosecution agencies;
• to facilitate the exchange and dissemination among them of information, expertise and experience; and, to that end, to encourage the use of information technology;
• to promote examination of comparative criminal law and procedure and to assist prosecutors engaged in justice reform projects;
• to co-operate with international juridical organisations in furtherance of the foregoing objects.·
OFFICERS
The IAP elects a President, six Vice-Presidents and a Secretary-General, and appoints a General Counsel, who are ex officio members of its governing body, the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee also consists of not less than 10 and not more than 30 appointed members, generally reflecting the regions of the world where the IAP has its members. There are at present 30 members from 28 countries.
The Secretary-General is the Chief Executive of the Association and manages its day-to-day affairs. The General Counsel has a representational role and is responsible for the Association’s work programme.
MEMBERSHIP
The present annual (calendar year) fee for an individual member is USD 40. Organizations wishing to join the IAP should contact the Secretary-General, Henk Marquart Scholtz. Please visit the IAP website to find more information, contact details and application forms.
IAP SECRETARIAT
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
| PRESIDENT François Falletti | Procureur General of The Court of Appeal, Aix-en-Provence, France |
| VICE PRESIDENTS | |
| Retha Meintjes SC | Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, South Africa |
| Feng YE | Director General, International Judicial Cooperation Department, People’s Republic of China |
| Carlos Mariano Donoso Castex | Vice-President of the Association of Prosecutors, Argentina |
| James Hamilton | Director of Public Prosecutions, Ireland |
| Wendy Stephen | Crown Counsel, Canada |
| Joon Gyu Kim | Senior Chief Prosecutor, Korea |
| SECRETARY-GENERAL | |
| Henk Marquart Scholtz | Senior Advocate General, The Netherlands |
| GENERAL COUNSEL | |
| Elizabeth Howe OBE | Chief Crown Prosecutor, England and Wales |
| MEMBERS | |
| Richard Buteera | Director of Public Prosecutions, Uganda |
| Sabas Chahuan Sarras | General Prosecutor, Chile |
| Nicholas Cowdery AM QC | Director of Public Prosecutions, New South Wales, Australia |
| Basile Elombat | Magistrat, Cameroon |
| James P. Fox | Chairman of the Board, National District Attorneys Association, United States |
| Sir Alasdair Fraser QC | Director of Public Prosecutions, Northern Ireland |
| Siri S. Frigaard | Chief Public Prosecutor, Norway |
| Vinette Graham Allen | Director/Principal of the Justice Training Institute (JTI), Jamaica |
| Grenville Cross SC | Director of Public Prosecutions, Hong Kong, China |
| Martin Herschorn QC | Director of Public Prosecutions, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Gerhard Jarosch | Prosecutor, Austria |
| Michael G. Kennedy CBE | Chief Operating Officer, Crown Prosecution Service, England and Wales |
| Fikrat F. Mammadov | Minister of Justice, Republic of Azerbaijan |
| Javier Popolo Filgueira | Public Prosecutor, Venezuela |
| Josaia K. Naigulevu | Director of Public Prosecutions, Fiji |
| Chaikasem Nitisiri | Attorney General, Thailand |
| Stephen Pallaras QC | Director of Public Prosecutions South Australia, Australia |
| Richard Rogers | Senior Counsel Department of Justice, United States |
| Oleksandr Shynalskyi | Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Prosecutors |
| Jorgen Steen Sorensen | Director of Public Prosecutions, Denmark |
| Raija Toiviainen | State Prosecutor, Finland |
| Làszlò Venczl | Vice-President, Hungarian Association of Prosecutors, Hungary |
ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF THE 14th IAP ANNUAL CONFERENCE
| CHAIRMAN | |
| Oleksandr Shynalskyi | Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, President of the Ukrainian Association of Prosecutors |
| Serhiy Mishchenko | Committee Chairman, Parliament of Ukraine |
| MEMBERS from the Prosecutor General’s Office | |
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Vitaliy Kasko
| Head of Department |
| Olena Sygydyn | Senior Prosecutor of Division |
| Serhiy Rudenko | Senior Assistant to Deputy Prosecutor General |
| Grygoriy Tytarchuk | Head of Main Department |
| Oleksandr Degtjaryov | Head of Main Department |
| Viktor Dychakovskyi | Head of Main Department |
| Ihor Artemenko | Deputy Head of Department |
| Oleg Umanskyi | Head of Department |
| Oleg Syngayevskyi | Head of Department |
| Lyudmyla Yerkhova | Accountant General |
| Serhiy Kravchuk | Deputy Head of Department |
| Andriy Gnativ | Head of Division |
| Oleksandr Prykhodko | Head of Division |
| Oleksandr Kovalenko | Head of Division |
| Maksym Chagarnyi | Head of Division |
| Vitaliy Berehovskykh | Head of Division |
| Yuriy Boichenko | Chief of Press-Service |
| OTHERS | |
| Yevhen Blazhivskyi | Prosecutor of Kyiv City |
| Volodymyr Boyko | Prosecutor of Autonomous Republic of Crimea |
| Volodymyr Dereza | Prosecutor of Sevastopol City |
| Henk Marquart Scholtz | Secretary-General, International Association of Prosecutors |
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