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    Armenian law-enforcement bodies get 2.4m-dollar grant from USA

    Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
    13 Jul 05

    [Presenter over video of signing ceremony] Armenian Prosecutor-General
    Agvan Ovsepyan and US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans today signed
    the protocol on amendment to the Armenian-American intergovernmental
    letter of agreement on drugs control and cooperation in the
    law-enforcement sphere in Yerevan.

    The Armenian-US intergovernmental letter of agreement on drugs control
    and cooperation the law enforcement sphere was signed in 2001.

    In accordance with the new amendments the US government is to allocate
    2.411m dollars to Armenia which be directed to six projects.

    The money will be used for setting up a regional computer network for
    the law-enforcement bodies, establishment of educational and research
    centres for law-enforcement personnel, a project to counter human
    trafficking, development of regional training facilities for border
    guards and customs officers, help with the criminal law reform and
    legal socialization programme.

    It is expected that 1m dollars from the allocated sum will be spent on
    setting up a crime research centre and 350,000 dollars on setting up a
    regional computer network for the law-enforcement bodies.

    [Agvan Ovsepyan, captioned] The protocol will create an opportunity to
    continue the programmes implemented in recent years. These programmes,
    for which we are grateful, [are] mainly in three spheres, the most
    important of which is establishing a crime research centre in Armenia.
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