U.S. will allocate additional U.S. $2.3m to Armenia for implementing projects for drugs’ control and legal reforms. In the framework of this program U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and Armenian Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan signed two Protocols, September 16.

According to Yovanovitch, U.S. Government allotted Armenia with U.S. $12m for the law enforcement assistance programs in 2001-2009. The diplomat underlined that Armenia-U.S. cooperation was quite effective these years, but still a lot to be done.

“We are proud that within 8 years we were a partner of Armenian Government in the struggle against organized crime, strengthening the legal system’s fundamentals. We consider the evident the outcomes of our cooperation,” Yovanovitch told the journalists.

The funds by U.S. Government will be apportioned for the development of National Expertise Bureau, the RA Central Bank’s Financial Monitoring Center: “The funds will be allotted to the assistance of human trafficking victims and the program of development of law enforcement institutions in Armenia.”