Wednesday, December 8 2021 11:37

ArmInfo. On December 8, the Parliament of Armenia approved the bill on the ratification of the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Armenia on information interaction and  exchange of information in electronic form, signed in Moscow in May  2021, on issues within the competence of the internal affairs bodies  of the Russian Federation and the Police of the Republic of Armenia."

As Deputy Chief of the RA Police Ara Fidanyan stated yesterday, with  the ratification of the document, it will become possible to organize  more promptly and efficiently the exchange of information between the  RA Police and the subdivisions determined by the RF Ministry of  Internal Affairs. The agreement will allow, in particular, to  provide, receive information in electronic form; ensure the security  of information received under the Agreement in accordance with the  legislation of each Party to international treaties to which they are  parties. According to the Deputy Chief of the RA Police, the  information received in accordance with the Agreement will be used  exclusively for official purposes and will not be passed on to a  third party without the prior written consent of the competent  authority of the participating state that Fidanyan added.

As noted in the background to the document, the RA Police have been  exchanging information since 1992 on the basis of the Agreement on  Relations between the Ministries of Internal Affairs in the Field of  Information Exchange (signed in Cholpon-Ata on August 3, 1992), as  well as on the basis of Interstate Agreements on the Exchange of  Information in fight against crime, signed in Astana in 2009.  "However, the above acts do not provide an opportunity to join the  CIS Forensic Science network of law enforcement agencies, exchange  information through it, and gain access to additional information  resources online (the CIS Information Bank array)," the document  says. To facilitate the operational exchange of information between  the two departments, as well as to gain access to information  resources on the Internet, in 2017, an Agreement was developed and  signed between the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the  Government of the Russian Federation on information cooperation and  electronic exchange of information.