SARAJEVO, February 4 (FENA) - Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina welcomes and considers very important the decision of the Head of the Task Force on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Organized Illegal Migration, Chief Prosecutor of the BiH Prosecutor Office, Gordana Tadić, to organize a meeting of the Task Force on February 10.
At the same time, the Ministry also welcomes the activities undertaken within the Task Force on the appointment of specialized prosecutors and investigators to combat trafficking in human beings in all prosecutor offices and police agencies.
They will be involved in a specialist Network of Prosecutors and Investigators within which they will exchange information, plan and conduct joint operations, conduct trainings, case analysis and build standards based on their own experience.
The revitalization of this Task Force is an extremely important step after the BiH Council of Ministers adopted on 23 January the Strategy for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings for the period 2020-2023, stated the Ministry of Security of BiH.
Such operations by the competent BiH institutions have enabled BiH's current status on Tier 2 watch list, a list of countries categorized by the US State Department’s Human Trafficking and Control Section, with the full assistance of the US Embassy in Sarajevo and Ambassador Eric Nelson, remain as such that it enables assistance to our country on a number of very significant and strategic grounds.
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