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Every State Party shall commit itself to adopting the
procedures necessary to extend the competence covering the
offences set forth in Article 31, paragraph 1, of this
Convention in the cases in which the alleged offender is
present in the territory of that State Party and shall not
extradite him to another Party according to his nationality
following the extradition request.
If more than one State Party claim to have jurisdiction over an
offence set forth in this Convention, priority shall be accorded
to the request of the State whose security or interests were
disrupted by the offence, followed by the State in whose
territory the offence was committed, and then by the State of
which the wanted person is a national. In case of similar
circumstances, priority shall be accorded to the first State that
requests the extradition.
Article 31: Extradition
1- a- This Article applies to the exchange of offenders between State
Parties for offences set forth in Chapter II of this Convention,
provided that such offences shall be punishable under the laws of
the concerned State Parties by deprivation of freedom for a
minimum period of one year or a more severe penalty.
b- If a different, less severe, penalty is applicable by virtue of an
agreed arrangement or by virtue of the extradition treaty, then the
less severe penalty shall apply.
2- Offences set forth in paragraph 1 of this article shall be deemed
offences whose perpetrators are extraditable under any
extradition treaty between State Parties.
3- If a State Party makes extradition conditional on the existence of
a treaty, and it receives an extradition request from a State Party
that has no extradition treaty, this Convention may be considered
as a legal basis for extradition as regards offences set forth in
paragraph 1 of this Article.
4- State Parties that do not require the existence of an extradition
treaty shall consider that the offences set forth in paragraph 1 of
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