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    Mediamax, Armenia
    Feb 13 2009

    Armenian, Russian chief prosecutors sign cooperation memo


    Yerevan, 13 February: Prosecutor Generals of Armenia and Russia Aghvan
    Hovsepyan and Yuriy Chayka signed a Memorandum in Yerevan today on the
    main directions for cooperation for 2009-2011 between the two
    countries' Prosecutor General's Offices.

    Mediamax reports that, according to the signed document, the main
    directions for cooperation for the nearest three years will be
    protection of human rights and the freedoms of citizens outside the
    criminal-legal field of the activity of the Prosecutor's Office,
    prevention of corruption, struggle against terror, transnational
    organize crime, human trafficking, illegal turnover of armament,
    narcotic and psychotropic substances and their precursors, fulfilment
    of international agreements on issues of extradition, rendering legal
    assistance concerning criminal cases, as well as revelation,
    withdrawal, division of revenues, gained by illegal means.

    As the Prosecutor General of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan noted, this is
    already the third similar document, signed between the departments of
    the two countries. "Earlier, a program of joint measures was also
    signed, which is in process of successful realization by the
    prosecutor's offices of the two countries," Hovsepyan stated, noting
    that from the point of view of cooperation, the criminal world is more
    active than the law-enforcement bodies.

    Answering the questions of journalists, Prosecutor General of Russia
    Yuriy Chayka admitted that there are problems concerning extremism and
    xenophobia in Russia. He informed that there are corresponding
    subdivisions set up in the Prosecutor General's Office and the
    Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which jointly and by
    coordinated effort deal with the given problems.

    Yuriy Chayka noted growth of crimes, realized basing on [committed on
    the basis of] xenophobia, which require increase of efforts of the
    law-enforcement bodies to oppose those phenomena, and the President of
    Russia has given the corresponding orders. At that he admitted that
    there is a necessity to reconsider the court practice concerning such
    cases.
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