BELGRADE, Serbia – Further to the preparation of the Ministerial MARRI Regional Forum, to be held on 7 April 2006 in Belgrade, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and Montenegro organised a preparatory meeting of Senior Officials dealing with the migration, asylum and refugees issues in the five MARRI Member States.
The preparatory meeting gave an opportunity for the representatives of the MARRI Member States to discuss and prepare the main documents on the initiative; namely, the draft guidelines and rules of procedure, draft statute of MARRI, draft MARRI strategy and programme of action for 2006/2007 and the draft ministerial declaration. In addition, some other important issues were discussed, such as the next MARRI Presidency and the next director of the MARRI Regional Centre in Skopje.