The Expediency Council on Saturday decided to discuss the issue of Iran’s accession to the Palermo Convention in the next session.
“Given that the Palermo Convention is an important legal issue and all the members are supposed to talk about it, we set the next session to further discuss the issue,” Majid Ansari, a member of the Expediency Council, told IRNA.
He noted that the Palermo Convention has various political, economic, legal and security aspects which were discussed in Saturday’s session.
The session was chaired by Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani, the new chairman of the council.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, central bank governor Abdolnasser Hemmati, and Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani also attended the meeting.
The United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), which is also called the Palermo Convention, is a 2000 United Nations-sponsored multilateral treaty against transnational organized crime.
The CFT (the convention combatting financing of terrorism) and Palermo Convention are prelude to join the FATF (Financial Action Task Force).