The Home Office has also re-examined the facts in relation to the extradition request.
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Asked about Venezuela's extradition request today, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack would only say this.
The British government took nearly the full 40 days they have to make the complete extradition request.
"The United States has never denied an extradition request from the UK under the treaty, " he said.
The activist was previously detained in Germany in 2007 but Turkey's extradition request was not met, he added.
No former head of state has ever before faced charges, or an extradition request, in a national court.
Moran is scheduled to appear before a judge in Madrid to face an extradition request on Monday, the statement said.
The sheriff showed The Associated Press a copy of the extradition request from September signed by one of Alvarez's prosecutors.
Venezuelan authorities say they are also preparing an extradition request for Mr Makled, who they believe was responsible for two murders.
Defence lawyers want the information to help them challenge the extradition request.
The South African government says it has not yet received a formal extradition request but Equatorial Guinea has asked to interview Mr Thatcher.
For the past five years he has been fighting an extradition request from the American authorities which want to try him on US soil.
When the UK sends an extradition request to the US, it is received by the US State Department via the British Embassy in Washington.
After being held for three weeks, it turned out that the American extradition request was based on a fraudster who had stolen Mr Bond's identity.
The guidance seeks to avoid that conclusion by making clear that the CPS should not reopen a case after an extradition request has been made.
The Spanish Government has backed an extradition request by Judge Baltasar Garzon, who is investigating crimes committed against Spaniards by former military governments in Latin America.
Despite the Chilean government's argument that the general should be returned to stand trial in Chile, points out Mr Straw, it has not itself made an extradition request.
Since it is almost inconceivable that Russia will agree to the forthcoming extradition request, it is highly unlikely that he will be obliged to defend himself in court.
Despite the US not having made an extradition request, US Attorney General Eric Holder has previously said American officials were pursuing a "very serious criminal investigation" into the matter.
That means that any European nation receiving an extradition request from the US, in similar circumstances, can provide the suspect with far less delay - certainly less than a decade.
Attorney Pertierra says Venezuela is planning to pursue its extradition request and is asking the United Nations and the Organization of American States to examine the conduct of the U.S. government.
Notably, the fire-in-the-belly attitude that marked Australia's assault on Israeli embassy personnel had no parallel in an Australian federal courtroom last week as Judge Neil McKerracher adjudicated an extradition request from Hungary.
McKinnon's lawyer, Karen Todner, complained that the United States has never provided evidence to prosecutors or McKinnon's legal team to support their extradition request -- and in fact, under Britain's Extradition Act of 2003, U.S. prosecutors are not required to.
But General Pinochet's lawyers argued that, if his immunity bid failed, he could be extradited only if the acts of which he was accused were a crime in both countries at the time they were committed, not at the time of the extradition request.
Five Law Lords have embarked on a rewriting of British extradition law, ruling that extradition can take place only if the alleged act was criminal in both Britain and Spain at the time it was committed, rather than at the time of the extradition request.
The judges' decision is thought to be the first time an English court has ever blocked an extradition request from a foreign government on the grounds that it would violate Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which safeguards the right to a fair trial.
On September 24th Spain's government, which has never been enthusiastic about the Pinochet prosecution and only forwarded Mr Garzon's extradition request to Britain because it felt it had to, failed in a second bid to get a Spanish court to rule that Mr Garzon did not have jurisdiction in the case.
An Italian judge acquitted a U.S. soldier accused of killing Calipari, saying Italy had no jurisdiction in the case, and Italy did not request extradition.
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