The Study visit was conducted under Project BORDAIRPOL II, financed by Swiss State Secretariat for Migration. High Officials of the respective border control authorities of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo*, Moldova, Serbia and Romania, dealing with Air and Land Borders, took part in this Project activity on 3-4 October 2016. Members of the Agency representing the International and European Cooperation Unit, the Joint Operations Unit, the IPA II Project Coordinator and Heads of Land and Air Border
Director of MARRI RC, ambassador Tamara Mugosa took part as one of the panelists at the International Conference titled European values and security faced with migration and refugee – a perspective from civil society, held in Skopje on 20 September 2016. This event has been co-organized by the Institute for Geostrategic and Foreign Affairs Policy of the Macedonian Foreign Ministry, Central European Initiative, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and European Movement in Macedonia. Mugosa took part in the first Panel entitled Migration and
Third Ministerial Conference of the Prague Process has been held on 20th September 2016 in Bratislava, under the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU. Two working sessions provided opportunity for high level participants to confer the current migration situation as well as its challenges. They have also discussed on how to tackle recognized challenges and pointed out that overall cooperation and coordination is of utmost importance. Participating countries and representatives of the EC and international organizations agreed that activities
Regional Workshop “Enhancing and Strengthening International and Cross-border Cooperation in Addressing Irregular Migration-related Crimes in the Western Balkans” has been held on 31st August -1st September 2016 in Podgorica, Montenegro. The aim of this important regional event has been to strengthen cooperation of criminal justice authorities and other relevant public and private stakeholders in addressing irregular migration-related crimes in the region focusing on prevention, prosecution and assistance provided to the victims, migrants and refugees, with the objective to identify gaps, challenges
Annual Forum of the Migration, Asylum and Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI) has been held in Podgorica on 21st June 2016. On that date Montenegro completed one year Presidency in Office over this regional mechanism. Ambassador Milorad Scepanovic, Deputy Foreign Minister for multilateral and regional initiatives chaired the Forum that gathered representatives of the Republic of Albania, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Serbia and Kosovo*, as well as the representatives of international organizations: IOM, OBSE, DCAF, ICMPD and
MARRI Friends Meeting was traditionally organized on 18 May 2016 in Skopje, Macedonia, gathering the international community and Macedonian institutions. The aim of the event was to present the one year activities of MARRI, the ongoing projects and achieved results as well as reflection on MARRI’s future activities. Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia welcomed the audience reiterating the full support towards MARRI mandate and role in the region. The representative of the Montenegrin Presidency-in-Office presented the
MARRI’s First Annual Meeting BORDAIRPOL II and ad hoc Meeting on New Developments on the SEE Migratory Route and Joint Response to Newly Occurring Security Challenges, co-organised by the Police Cooperation Convention for Southeast Europe (PCC SEE) Secretariat under the auspices of the Moldovan Chairmanship and the DCAF Border Security Programme was held from 20-22 April 2016 in Portorož, Slovenia Annual Meeting is the first strategic meeting organized under Project BORDAIRPOL II financed by Swiss State Secretariat for Migration. Beneficiaries
The training was held on 8-9 April 2016 with aim to improve the ability of National Governments to address challenges in implementing national policies and legislation by working toward a comprehensive picture of threats posed by the areas of asylum and mixed migration flows, to be presented with a future regional strategic analytical product. National delegations from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Kosovo*, Romania and Serbia presented relevant data and statistics and exchanged information about the latest
As part of the project, we have worked hard on enhancing the capacities of the MARRI Participants’ national authorities to effectively respond to the expansion of irregular migrants and speed up the identification process. The project supported the national institutions in building a sustainable and effective mechanism for joint multi-stakeholder action in the process of establishing identity of irregular migrants. In the course of the past 11 months through eight regional workshops the following major outputs have been achieved: Drafting
The workshop was follow up on the previous project activity in the framework of “Improvement of the Procedures for Establishing the Identity of Irregular Migrants in the MARRI Region” Project and it was held on 24 and 25 March 2016 in Skopje, Macedonia.
