Armenian police chief: Yerevan willing to cooperate with Baku in crackdown on drug trafficking
04.10.2013,
19:15
Armenia is willing to cooperate with Azerbaijan in the crackdown on drug trafficking, Armenian Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan said Friday while summarizing results of the local anti-drug operation called Canal-Caucasus. The office coordinating this operation is located in Yerevan.
YEREVAN, October 4. /ARKA/. Armenia is willing to cooperate with Azerbaijan in the crackdown on drug trafficking, Armenian Police Chief Vladimir Gasparyan said Friday while summarizing results of the local anti-drug operation called Canal-Caucasus. The office coordinating this operation is located in Yerevan.
“Armenia has no untouchable topics,” he is quoted by Novosti-Armenia. “Criminality has no nationality.”
Nikolay Bordyuzha, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, said on his side that in the Canal international anti-drug campaign is being run under the auspices of the organization are taking part not only the CSTO member countries but also 22 states.
“Armenian and Azerbaijani police officers are normally cooperating with each other within this operation,” he said.
The local Canal-Caucasus anti-drug operation was carried out in Armenia from October 1 to 4.
In this connection, CSTO Secretary General Nikolay Bordyuzha and Russian Federation Federal Drug Control Service Director Victor Ivanov traveled to Yerevan. ---0---
