Yet we don't need an extradition treaty with Iraq to transfer Daqduq, a Lebanese citizen captured by American forces in a war zone.
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"We don't have an extradition treaty with Sweden but we'll look into our laws and see how we can handle this case, " the spokesman added.
The third suspect remains at large but Benin has an extradition treaty with Equatorial Guinea and authorities are hopeful of making an arrest, our reporter says.
The U.S. must have an extradition treaty with a country in order to bring a resident of that country to the United States to be tried in U.S. courts.
Cuba does not have an extradition treaty with the US and is not a signatory to the international treaty, the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
In October, deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner told CNN that although the United States and Italy have an extradition treaty, he was not able to answer speculative questions on extradition issues.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after all is under threat of indictment for war crimes in Belgium which has an extradition treaty with Britain, and therefore has to be careful about his European travel plans.
In 2011, deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner told CNN that although the United States and Italy have an extradition treaty, he was not able to answer speculative questions on extradition issues in the Knox case.
His tenure at the Home Office saw the siege at the Libyan People's Bureau in London during which a policewoman was shot, the miners' strike and the forging of an extradition treaty with Spain despite the Gibraltar dispute.
"The United States has never denied an extradition request from the UK under the treaty, " he said.
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