YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, NOYAN TAPAN. Aghvan Hovsepian, the RA Prosecutor General, and Rudolf Perina, the Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Armenia, signed the sixth Protocol on the amendment to the Letter of Agreement on Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Armenia in Yerevan on September 24. Under this sixth amendment to the Letter of Agreement, the U.S. Government will provide a financial assistance of approximately 170 thousand U.S. dollars for the implementation of two programs for the RA police: the construction of a firing range and creation of a country-wide computer network. About 8 million dollars have been provided for the law enforcement bodies of Armenia since the initial Agreement was signed on June 11, 2001. Here is the work done due to those means: the creation of an independent expertise center under the RA National Academy of Sciences and educational computer auditoriums in different law enforcement bodies, technological modernization of frontier posts, as well as many others. Rudolf Perina informed journalists about the readiness of his country to continue the cooperation with the law enforcement bodies of Armenia. He attached importance to the bilateral cooperation, as well as that of the law enforcement bodies in the international arena, taking into consideration the increase of international terrorism.

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