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CRIME RATE IN CIS UP 12 PERCENT

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 29, ARMENPRESS; CIS Executive Secretary Vladimir
Rushailo said today in Yerevan crime rate in CIS member countries went up 12
percent in the first six months of the year from a year ago, arguing also
that effective fighting against crime was possible only given cooperation of
police forces in these countries with appropriate bodies of the UN.
Rushailo was addressing a regular conference of the Council of CIS
Interior Ministers that has brought together the ministers from Armenia,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Ukraine, Uzbekistan and even Azerbaijan. The conference’s agenda is
dominated by issues on fighting corruption and illegal migration. Rushailo
called also for setting up a task force that would develop proposals on how
to best crack down on organized crime and to block roads for export of
heroine manufactured in Afghanistan to reach the CIS.
In early June a UN narcotic and crime agency signed an agreement with CIS
executive committee, calling for reinforcing border check points across the
CIS and equipping police forces with modern labs. Rushailo complained that
out of 16 agreements on fighting crime, terrorism and illicit narcotics
sale, signed by CIS members, only 2 were enacted by September, 2005 and
called on CIS interior ministers to step up the process of their enactment.