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05YEREVAN1387
2005-08-03 06:57:00
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Embassy Yerevan
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ARMENIA: ANTI-TIP ACTION PLAN PRESENTED

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UNCLAS YEREVAN 001387 

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR G/TIP, EUR/CACEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL AM KTIP
SUBJECT: ARMENIA: ANTI-TIP ACTION PLAN PRESENTED

REF: STATE 139065

Sensitive but Unclassified. Please treat accordingly.

UNCLAS YEREVAN 001387

SIPDIS

SENSITIVE

DEPT FOR G/TIP, EUR/CACEN

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PHUM PREL AM KTIP
SUBJECT: ARMENIA: ANTI-TIP ACTION PLAN PRESENTED

REF: STATE 139065

Sensitive but Unclassified. Please treat accordingly.


1. (SBU) On August 1, CDA delivered reftel points to Deputy
Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, underscoring the USG's
judgment that Armenia has not shown increasing efforts to
combat trafficking. We presented the proposed action plan,
urging concrete steps forward, noting that the Department of
State is required to present an interim report on Armenia's
actions against trafficking.


2. (SBU) Kirakossian was joined in the meeting by Tigran
Seiranian, MFA Director of the Consular Department, who had
recently returned from a USG-funded trip to the United Arab
Emirates, one of the primary destinations of women trafficked
from Armenia. He said that while there was as yet no
official agreement with the UAE on victim repatriation, a
recent working visit to Dubai and Abu Dhabi had resulted in
"some practical solutions." He reported that the MFA had
successfully repatriated two Armenian trafficking victims
from the UAE in May. Previous efforts at repatriation had
been hampered by the victims' lack of legitimate travel
documents.


3. (SBU) Seiranian called into question statistics cited in
the USG's TIP report. He alleged that UAE data showed that
there were only 87 Armenian victims of trafficking in 2003,
and 84 in 2004. While we acknowledged that it is difficult
to obtain statistics of trafficked women, the problem is
serious and should not be dismissed in the absence of harder
numbers of victims.


4. (SBU) Noting the GOAM's interest in working to improve
its record on trafficking, Kirakossian appeared generally
receptive to the reftel points, and the MFA will disseminate
them at the next meeting of the intergovernmental
anti-trafficking working group scheduled for mid-August. We
stressed our eagerness to continue working with the GOAM to
fight trafficking and told Kirakossian that our
anti-trafficking assistance programs will be further focused
to concentrate on the points in the action plan we presented.
GODFREY