A legal subcommittee of the International Civil Aviation Organization has drawn up a draft convention by which any person who hijacks or tries to hijack an aircraft will be considered a criminal and any state signing the pact will agree to hold him under arrest until criminal proceedings can be started. The 13 member states composing the subcommittee are Algeria, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, India, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom and United States.
The draft also stated that hijacking should be considered an extraditable offense in any extradition treaties between the members of the ICAO. The draft added that any state should consider hijacking as extraditable even in the absence of a treaty. The draft referred to the ICAO Council which will decide on it on March 17. Any member nation holding a hijacker and refusing to extradite him will be obliged to submit the case to the competent authorities with a view to initiating legal proceedings against the hijacker, according to the draft. If the draft is approved by the ICAO, each of the member countries would have to pass enforcing legislation to implement it.
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