The Ministry

Department of Legal Affairs

The Department of Legal Affairs is responsible for:

• Giving legal opinions on matters and issues referred to it.
• Preparing and drafting the Ministry's draft legislative instruments, and giving opinions on draft legislative instruments referred to the Ministry.
• Studying draft international treaties and agreements that the State wishes to join, and giving legal opinions on signing or acceding to them, in coordination with the relevant administrative units and competent authorities.
• Giving opinions on the renewal, extension, termination or amendment of international treaties and agreements, in coordination with the relevant administrative units and competent authorities.
• Handling and following up on matters related to regional and international courts, following the work and decisions of specialised regional and international legal committees, and examining their consistency with the State's laws and higher interests.
• Taking the necessary steps to conclude, ratify, publish, register or deposit treaties and agreements to which the State is a party with the competent regional and international bodies, in coordination with the relevant administrative units and competent authorities.
• Preparing and keeping files on agreements and treaties to which the State is a party, in coordination with the competent authorities.
• Studying legal cases and issues related to the State's interests abroad and its missions, and advising on the steps needed to protect them, in coordination with the competent authorities of the State.
• Preparing, reviewing and drafting contracts concluded by the Ministry and its missions abroad, referring them to the competent authorities for review, and following up on any problems that arise in their implementation.
• Investigating incidents and violations attributed to Ministry employees that are referred to it, in accordance with the applicable legislation, preparing memoranda on the findings with a legal opinion, and following up on the implementation of the resulting decisions.
• Handling the legal aspects of all treaties, agreements, memoranda of understanding, protocols and international regulations that bind or may bind the State, and ensuring that the procedures for their approval, ratification, acceptance, accession and publication are completed.
• Examining diplomatic and consular disputes and all legal aspects of the Ministry's work abroad.
• Preparing draft agreements to be concluded with Arab and foreign countries, in coordination with the relevant administrative units.
• Keeping copies of all treaties and related diplomatic documents, and the instruments of ratification, acceptance or accession for all international treaties to which the State is a party.
• Following up on disputes and lawsuits to which the Ministry is a party, in coordination with the competent authorities.

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