Further, the part of US State Dept. report on trafficking which concerned Armenia was discussed. The Council suggested that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs analyze the existing legislation on prevention and combating trafficking in order to fill the gaps and better organize relevant activities. This shall become part of the agenda for the next meeting of the Council, which is to take place in September.

The Council approved mechanisms of national tracking of victims of trafficking, presented by Dzjunik Aghajanyan, head of the working group. In order to make it a working paper and not just a good intention, the Vice Prime Minister gave the commission the job to prepare legal framework for the latter and present it for the approval of the Government in one month's time.

        
After that, participants discussed the financial provisions necessary for each department to implement activities envisaged by the implementation schedule of the Anti-trafficking National Action Plan for 2009.

An agreement was reached to provide funding for activities of 2008 from the budgetary means of each Ministry. Departments received an assignment to clarify once again the amount of funds necessary for implementation of their part of activities. 

“International organizations have serious expectations related to the work of the Anti-trafficking Council. They give particular importance to the participation of state agencies and allocation of state funds. During the next 10 days, within the framework of meetings with donor organizations, further joint projects shall be discussed,”- said Armen Gevorgyan, Vice Prime Minister of RA and Minister of Territorial Administration.

“Hayastani Hanrapetutjyn” newspaper, www.hhpress.am., unofficial translation from Armenian

27-06-2008

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