Riyadh, June 27, 2020, SPA -- Regional Director of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Hatem Ali, praised the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's efforts, in the field of combating trafficking in persons and the reforms implemented within this framework, at the legal and institutional levels. In a press statement, Ali affirmed that these efforts contributed to improving the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's ranking, in the United Nations' assessment as well as other countries, with regard to combating trafficking in persons, reflected in the recently released US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report. --SPA 17:02 LOCAL TIME 14:02 GMT 0004 www.spa.gov.sa/w1358806