YEREVAN, OCTOBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN. The sitting of the Coordination Council of the Prosecutors General of the CIS member states will take place in Yerevan on October 9. According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by Sona Truzian, the Spokesperson of the RA Prosecutor General, about ten issues are included on the agenda, including issues concerning the development process of a common system of statistics and registration of crimes, the cooperation between Prosecutor General's Offices of the CIS member states in the struggle against trafficking, the issue concerning the protection of human rights, as well as the implementation process of other resolutions passed by the Coordination Council before. The issue concerning trafficking was included on the agenda by the suggestion of the RA Prosecutor General, who will make a speech concerning that issue in the sitting. Signing of documents is also envisaged during the sitting. The delegations of the Prosecutor General's Offices of all the member states of the Council, except Azerbaijan, will take part in the sitting of the Coordination Council to be held in Yerevan. The Deputy Prosecutor General of Turkmenistan will also take part in the sitting with the status of an observer: the above-mentioned country is not a member of the Council. The Coordination Council of the Prosecutors General of the CIS member states has been operating since 1995. It conducts its activities based on the principles set by the CIS fundamental documents. The Coordination Council was given the status of an interstate institution by the decision of the heads of the CIS member states on January 25, 2000. The main goal of the Coordination Council is to contribute to the undertaking of the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, strengthening of legality, as well as joint and collaborated activities of the prosecutor general's offices of the CIS member states in the struggle against crime. It is also aimed at the development of suggestions with regard to making the national legislations closer to each other, as well as at the improvement of the CIS legislative base.

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