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186 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crimetion, prosecution or judicial proceeding in the territory of the requesting Party shallnot be prosecuted, detained, punished or subjected to any other restriction of his orher personal liberty in that territory in respect of acts, omissions or convictions priorto his or her departure from the territory of the requested State Party. Such safe conductshall cease when the witness, expert or other person having had, for a period offifteen consecutive days, or for any period agreed upon by the Parties, from the dateon which he or she has been officially informed that his or her presence is no longerrequired by the judicial authorities, an opportunity of leaving, has neverthelessremained voluntarily in the territory of the requesting Party or, having left it, hasreturned of his or her own free will.“20 bis. The authorities of the requested State Party may request to be presentin proceedings conducted in the territory of the requesting State Party. 70“21. The ordinary costs of executing a request shall be borne by the requestedState Party, unless otherwise agreed by the Parties concerned. If expenses of a substantialor extraordinary nature are or will be required to fulfil the request, the Partiesshall consult to determine the terms and conditions under which the request will beexecuted, as well as the manner in which the costs shall be borne. 71“21 bis. (a) The requested State Party shall provide copies of governmentrecords, documents or information in its possession that, under its laws, are availableto the general public;“(b) The requested State Party may, at its discretion, provide in whole, in partor subject to such conditions as it deems appropriate, copies of any governmentrecords, documents or information in its possession that under its laws are not availableto the general public. 72“22. States Parties shall consider, as may be necessary, the possibility of concludingbilateral or multilateral agreements or arrangements that would serve the purposesof, give practical effect to or enhance the provisions of this article.”Tenth session: 17-28 July 2000Notes by the Secretariat2. The version of article 14 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.5 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the Convention (A/AC.254/4/Revs.6-9 and Corr.1).The only changes in documents A/AC.254/4/Rev.8 and A/AC.254/4/Rev.9 were the renumberingof paragraphs and subparagraphs and an editorial redrafting of paragraph 5 (d). Thedraft text of the article, on which delegations based their comments at the tenth session ofthe Ad Hoc Committee, was as follows:70This paragraph was proposed by Mexico. It was originally contained in document A/AC.254/L.44 and is presentedhere as further amended by Mexico at the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee.71One delegation noted that the wording of this paragraph required clarification. Bangladesh suggested that the modalitiesfor sharing ordinary costs of executing the request should be decided through mutual consultation between the requestingState party and the requested State party.72This provision, based on a proposal submitted by the United States at the fourth session of the Ad Hoc Committee(see A/AC.254/L.33), was redrafted following a preliminary discussion at the fifth session of the Ad Hoc Committee. Itwould require further examination.