ARMENIAN AND UAE LAW-ENFORCERS AGREE TO JOINTLY FIGHT AGAINST PIMPS AND TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN BEINGS

ArmenPress
Feb 16 2005

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, ARMENPRESS: Prosecutors of Armenia and the
United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to create a joint task force
to draft an intergovernmental legal assistant pact. The agreement
was reached when a delegation of the Armenian prosecutor’s office
was visiting the UAE earlier this month.

Armenian prosecutor’s office told Armenpress that members of the
delegation had a series of meetings with their UAE counterparts to
focus on how to track down and call to account persons engaged in
trafficking in human beings, illegal migration and pimping.

According to the Armenian prosecutor’s office, 7 of 9 criminal cases
launched against people engaged in pimping involved 22 Armenian
pimps working in the UAE. According to International Organization for
Migration (IOM) findings, Armenia is a country of origin for women and
children who are trafficked primarily into the United Arab Emirates
(UAE) and Turkey.