US DEPARTMENT OF STATE: A LACK OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY HAMPERED ARMENIA’S ABILITY TO INVESTIGATE THE TRAFFICKING
arminfo
2008-06-10 19:36:00
ArmInfo. A lack of diplomatic relations between Armenia and
Turkey hampered Armenia’s ability to investigate the trafficking
of Armenian nationals to Turkey, the annual 2008 Trafficking in
Persons Report of US Department of State says. The document also
says that the government actively cooperated with Interpol in an
attempt to investigate trafficking crimes involving both countries;
the government located one Armenian trafficker in Turkey in 2007;
Armenian government efforts to return the trafficker to Armenia
for prosecution are underway. Although the government has bilateral
anti-trafficking agreements with the U.A.E., these instruments are
rarely used to investigate trafficking cases with ties to the U.A.E.