Hutt-Republic Treaty

"Perhaps now you will allow the Republic to use your trade routes, and hostilities can come to an end.''" "''«Agreed. A treaty is in order.»"

- Padmé Amidala closes negotiations with Jabba the Hutt

In the second year of the Clone Wars, the Galactic Republic established a treaty with the Hutt families through crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, the leader of the Hutts. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi initially negotiated the treaty with Jabba, while Senator Padmé Amidala was able to secure the accord's ratification after exposing a Separatist plot against Jabba to kidnap his son and frame the Jedi Order for the crime.