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Part One. Article 16 147Transmission of requests for extradition and any communication thereto shall beeffected between the authorities designated by the Parties. This requirement shall bewithout prejudice to the right of a Party to require that such requests and communicationsbe addressed to it through the diplomatic channel.“Option 2“1. With a view to facilitating cooperation within the framework of theConvention, States Parties shall establish central authorities, which shall communicatedirectly between themselves. The central authorities shall be responsible for handlingincoming and outgoing requests for extradition and mutual legal assistance.“2. [Notwithstanding paragraph 1,] States Parties, subject to their domestic legislation,shall consider simplifying extradition of consenting persons who waive formalextradition proceedings, by allowing direct transmission of extradition requestsbetween appropriate ministries and extraditing persons based only on warrants ofarrests or judgements.“3. Any person regarding whom the measures referred to in paragraph 1 ofthis article are being taken shall be entitled:“(a) To communicate with the nearest appropriate representative of the State ofwhich that person is a national or which is otherwise entitled to establish such communicationor, if that person is a stateless person, the State in the territory of whichthat person habitually resides;“(b) To be visited by a representative of that State.“4. The rights referred to in paragraph 3 of this article shall be exercised inconformity with the laws and regulations of the State Party in the territory of whichthe offender or the alleged offender is present, subject to the provision that the saidlaws and regulations must enable full effect to be given to the purposes for whichthe rights accorded under paragraph 3 of this article are intended.”Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.1)“Article 10“Extradition 4“1. This article shall apply to the offences covered by this Convention [offencesestablished in article(s) ...]. 5“2. Each of the offences to which this article applies shall be deemed to beincluded as an extraditable offence in any extradition treaty existing between States4This article brings together articles 10 to 13 contained in document A/AC.254/4 and is based on a proposal submittedby France and Sweden (see A/AC.254/5) and resubmitted in an amended form during the first session of the Ad HocCommittee. The text in brackets in this article was proposed during the discussion at the first session of the Ad HocCommittee. One delegation noted that this article did not sufficiently take into account the principle of aut dedere aut judicare,in particular in respect of the establishment of jurisdiction. One delegation emphasized the importance of ensuring proceduralsafeguards and suggested that either a separate paragraph should deal with that issue or all relevant paragraphs shouldrefer to “fundamental legal principles”.5One delegation proposed that the scope of this article should be limited to offences punishable by one year or moreof imprisonment.