Pan Armenian News

US STATE DEPARTMENT: ARMENIA ACTIVELY FIGHTS TERROR

28.04.2005 04:43

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ «Armenia was a full and active participant of the fight
against terror in 2004 as before,» the US State Department Threat of
Terrorism in Foreign States Annual Report says. «In December 2004 the
National Assembly of Armenia passed a law against money laundering and
financing terrorism, as well as carried out work to make the Armenian
legislation comply international standards,» the document says. According to
the report, Armenian frontier guards discovered 42 grams of radioactive
substances, which were not suitable for using in the production of arms. In
spite of these substances were not meant for terrorist activities to all
appearance, by that Armenian frontier guards showed their capacity to find
and neutralize nuclear substances,» the document says. The report also notes
that the Central Bank of Armenia has fully cooperated in detection and
freezing of bank accounts of terrorists, however, no such accounts were
found in Armenia in 2004.