YEREVAN. - The report of the U.S. State Department on human trafficking combat in Armenia is critical due to the peculiarities of its preparation, said the head of Armenian Police Anti-Trafficking department Tigran Petrosyan.

He said that, the report aims to help improve the situation in this field. In the first place, the report did not reveal problems unknown to the Armenian side and, secondly, Armenian side does not agree with some provisions of the report, which was mentioned during the meetings with U.S. Embassy representatives. 

Tigran Petrosyan emphasized the peculiarities of the report, whose authors rely on various sources in their arguments and conclusions. Thus, one of the grounds for claiming that Armenia is the final destination of human trafficking has become a fact that in 2008 a group of women was delivered from the Russia (Volgograd) with the purpose of sexual exploitation. On the other hand, the reason for the claim that Armenia is a supplier of victims of trafficking was the report of German Zora, offering assistance to victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation, which reported on the assistance of an Armenian woman. Whether this woman was a citizen of Armenia, is still unclear.

Tigran Petrosyan added that there are cases when people pretend to be trafficking victims to facilitate the acquiring the citizenship in European countries.