OHRID, Macedonia – National coordinators of the respective governments of the Migration, Asylum and Refugees Regional Initiative Member States met in Ohrid on 22 November 2005 at a side meeting, in the framework of the regional CARDS project Enhance the Implementation Strategies for National Anti-trafficking Action Plans in the SAp countries, implemented by the ICMPD.
During the meeting the respective national coordinators agreed on further enhancement of their regional cooperation through the regional platform of anti-trafficking in Human Beings in the MARRI Member States.
The platform envisages two meetings in 2006, during which the national coordinators together with special invitees from the neighbouring countries, the European Commission, international organisations and other relevant stakeholders would discuss current regional cooperation, activities, projects, important issues on suppressing this phenomenon as well as come to join conclusion and commitments for the future actions.