Armenian leader, prosecutor discuss fight against human trafficking

Regnum, Moscow
15 Mar 05

Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has held a working meeting with
Armenian Prosecutor-General Agvan Ovsepyan.

The meeting discussed issues concerning measures to fight human
trafficking, the Armenian presidential press service told Regnum news
agency. The Armenian prosecutor-general reported that as a result of a
joint operation carried out by the police and the prosecutor’s office,
members of groups involved in recruiting and sending prostitutes
abroad were exposed and brought to book.

The Armenian prosecutor-general also reported that a fall in the
number of premeditated murders was registered this year. He said that
23 such murders were registered in the same period of the last year,
while this year their number is only nine. Ovsepyan also told the
Armenian president about discovered false excise stamps, which
testifies that they are printed abroad and then imported into Armenia.