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Being convinced of the urgent need to enhance international cooperation
between States in devising and adopting effective and practical measures for the
prevention of such acts of terrorism and for the prosecution and punishment of their
perpetrators,
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Nothing in this Convention shall be interpreted as imposing an obligation to
extradite or to afford mutual legal assistance if the requested State Party has
substantial grounds for believing that the request for extradition for offences set
forth in article 2 or for mutual legal assistance with respect to such offences has
been made for the purpose of prosecuting or punishing a person on account of that
person’s race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin or political opinion or that
compliance with the request would cause prejudice to that person’s position for any
of these reasons.
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