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Author: George W. Bush  | Date: November 14, 2006

Message to the Senate Transmitting the Malaysia-United States Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters,
November 14, 2006

To the Senate of the United States:

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Treaty between the United States of America and Malaysia on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, signed on July 28, 2006, at Kuala Lumpur. I transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the report of the Department of State with respect to the Treaty.

The Treaty is one of a series of modern mutual legal assistance treaties being negotiated by the United States in order to counter criminal activities more effectively.The Treaty should enhance our ability to investigate and prosecute a wide variety of crimes. The Treaty is self-executing.

The Treaty provides for a broad range of cooperation in criminal matters. Under the Treaty, the Parties agree to assist each other by, among other things: providing evidence (such as testimony, documents, items, or things) obtained voluntarily or, where necessary, by compulsion; arranging for persons, including persons in custody, to travel to the other country to provide evidence; serving documents; executing searches and seizures; locating and identifying persons, items, or places; examining objects and sites; freezing and forfeiting assets or property; and identifying or tracing proceeds of crime.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Treaty, and give its advice and consent to ratification.

George W. Bush
The White House,
November 14, 2006.

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Chicago: George W. Bush, "Message to the Senate Transmitting the Malaysia-United States Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, November 14, 2006," Week Ending Friday, October 17, 2006 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, November 17, 2006 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006), 42:2052-2053 Original Sources, accessed April 19, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=P5H6GMUU7EMLID6.

MLA: Bush, George W. "Message to the Senate Transmitting the Malaysia-United States Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, November 14, 2006." Week Ending Friday, October 17, 2006, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, November 17, 2006 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006), 42:2052-2053, Original Sources. 19 Apr. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=P5H6GMUU7EMLID6.

Harvard: Bush, GW, 'Message to the Senate Transmitting the Malaysia-United States Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, November 14, 2006' in Week Ending Friday, October 17, 2006. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, November 17, 2006 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006), 42:2052-2053. Original Sources, retrieved 19 April 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=P5H6GMUU7EMLID6.