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Holder Convenes Talks with ‘Quintet’ AGs
By Ryan J. Reilly | April 30, 2010 12:45 pm

From left to right: Australia Attorney General Robert McClelland; United Kingdom Attorney General Baroness Patricia Scotland; U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; Canada Minister of Justice and Attorney General Rob Nicholson; and New Zealand Attorney General Christopher Finlayson (photo by Ryan J. Reilly / Main Justice).

Attorney General Eric Holder met Friday morning with the Attorneys General from the Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, a group known as “The Quintet.”

The Justice Department said the officials planned to discuss counterterrorism cooperation, international organized crime, youth violence and internet-based crime.

Australia Attorney General Robert McClelland, Canada Minister of Justice and Attorney General Rob Nicholson, New Zealand Attorney General Christopher Finlayson and United Kingdom Attorney General Baroness Patricia Scotland all met in the 7th floor conference room at the Justice Department’s headquarters.

McClelland, Scotland and Holder (photo by Ryan J. Reilly / Main Justice)

Holder and Nicholson (photo by Ryan J. Reilly / Main Justice).

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