In 1997 the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) carried out Operation Cyclone, a combined-forces assault on organized crime at Avtovaz.

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"We do have some problems with local police and Arbaki forces, " says Siddiq Siddiqi, spokesman for Afghanistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kabul.

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Japan is one of the oldest countries in the world, with a full 28% of the population expected to be 65 years or older by 2010, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

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The Finance Ministry proposes that the monthly pay for police, which grew rapidly thanks to a recent reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, should not be touched and that the number of police should be reduced.

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Expenditures on defense and the law enforcement organs grew noticeably last year, when President Dmitri Medvedev raised the financing of arms programs to 20 trillion rubles and carried out an expensive reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Now, in the words of a Vedemosti source, a reduction, an extension in schedule, or a simply cancellation of several weapons programs (with the exception of strategic nuclear forces) are being considered, as are staff reductions in the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (though without any cuts to salaries or social programs).

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The Meeting was attended by representatives of the Pacific state parties to the 2003 ICH Convention as well as Cook Islands experts including representative of the House of Ariki (traditional chiefs), officers at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of education, representative of the Cook Islands Voyaging Society and other civil society organisations.

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State media quoted the ministry as praising "the firm Russian stance which is based on the UN principles of non-interference in internal affairs or the threat to use force against the safety of any state".

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