Putin: The Crime and Punishment novel is a manual for INTERPOL
Germany, USA, Lithuania, Belgium, Poland and Ukraine are the most active partners of Russia in INTERPOL, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at the 77th session of the General Assembly of INTERPOL in Saint Petersburg, today, on October 7, a REGNUM correspondent reports. According to Putin, INTERPOL member-states should further increase rates of cooperation. “We intend to step up contacts with INTERPOL in the future,” Putin said. “Today INTERPOL has a modern database and advanced technical equipment that helps to cause a serious damage to criminal structures,” the prime minister noted.
Putin said the Russian department of INTERPOL was successfully developing, stressing the meaningful participation of INTERPOL in the fight against terrorism.
“We are impressed by political indifference of INTERPOL,” Putin said. He also marked that he was pleased to listen to the quotation from the novel of Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina during a speech of one of his foreign counterparts. According to Putin, the reference to the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel Crime and Punishment would reasonably sound at the session of the INTERPOL Assembly, adding that this was not only “a manual for proper work” but also a good example of “a subtle struggle between an investigator and a criminal.”
Putin congratulated Vatican on joining INTERPOL and wished luck to all members of this organization.
It is worth mentioning, the 77th Session of the General Assembly of INTERPOL started in Petersburg’s hotel “Pribaltiyskaya” today. The session will last four days, 650 delegates from the whole world will take part in it. Key issues will be: international drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings, including issues of operative exchange of information among INTERPOL member-states. Besides, a new leader of the Assembly will be elected. Today the state of Vatican entered INTERPOL.
The International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL was founded in 1923. Nowadays INTERPOL includes 185 states. Its previous 76th session was held in the town of Marrakesh (Morocco).
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