Project kick-off event was held 3&4 September 2015, in MARRI Regional Centre premises, with addresses by the British Ambassador, H.E. Charles Edmund Garrett and MARRI RC Director, Ambassador Tamara Mugosa. First workshop, aimed at drafting a regional legal framework for use of joint interpretation capacities for rare languages in the Western Balkans region. It gathered competent representatives from all MARRI Participants.   View gallery

In the framework of the Project “Support of cooperation among border police on airports in Southeast Europe” BORDAIRPOL, MARRI Regional Centre organized the Joint Training on English Language, which took place on 23 and 24 June 2015 in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. Border police units on the main international airports from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Serbia, Romania and Kosovo* attended the Training. This is the Sixth Joint Training which is part of the Project module Joint Trainings

MARRI Regional Committee Meeting and Regional Forum held in Skopje, Macedonia New Director of MARRI was appointed Kosovo* admitted to full participation to MARRI RC MARRI Regional Committee Meeting and Regional Forum organized under Macedonian Presidency- in-Office were held on 09th and 10th of June, 2015 in Skopje. The Committee Meeting was held on 9th of June that gathered MARRI Committee members who have discussed amendments to the MARRI Statute and Guidelines and Rules of procedure as well as the

The Macedonian MARRI Presidency-in-Office initiated Extraordinary Committee Meeting with goal for better preparation of the MARRI Regional Forum. On 12th May 2015 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the meeting was held with the representatives from all 5 Member states. It gathered MARRI Committee members in order to discuss and harmonize the existing strategic documents and topics of importance for the forthcoming MARRI Regional Committee Meeting and Forum scheduled for 09 and 10 June 2015. The meeting concluded with further directions

25 March 2015, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina – The conference on Return of Irregular Migrants from the Western Balkan Countries organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Security from Bosnia and Herzegovina and MARRI Regional Center was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 25 March 2015. It gathered participants from MARRI Member States, as well as diplomatic representatives from Switzerland and third countries like Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Palestine, Libya, Turkey and representatives from EU Delegation in

The MARRI Regional Centre in Skopje, under the Macedonian MARRI Presidency in Office, organized the MARRI Friends/Diplomatic Briefing meeting at the Government premises, on March 10th 2015. The meeting gathered members of diplomatic corps in Macedonia, relevant international organizations: ICMPD, IOM, OSCE, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia. MARRI Member States were represented by the ambassadors and representatives from the respective embassies. The opening speech was delivered by H.E.

Fifth Joint Training – VIS held in Ohrid In the framework of the Project “Support of cooperation among border police on airports in Southeast Europe” BORDAIRPOL, MARRI Regional Centre organized Fifth Joint Training on the topic “Visa Information System- VIS”, which took place on 28 January, 2015 in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. The Training was conducted by Mr. Laurent Bonansea, European Commission representative who provided basic information and utilization of VIS, outlooks and challenges from the EC perspective as well

Ohrid, Macedonia, 15 – 17 December 2014 – MARRI Regional Centre, RACVIAC and Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Macedonia organized the workshop “Regional Cooperation for Better Response to the THB in SEE” in the period 15-17 December 2014 in Ohrid, Macedonia. National representatives from MARRI & RACVIAC Member states Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey were present, as well as a representative from Kosovo*. Also, active part in the workshop took international organizations ICMPD, IOM

On 4 December 2014, in Skopje, the Macedonian Chairmanship-in-Office of MARRI held the MARRI Regional Committee Meeting. The meeting was held at the premises of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia. This Committee Meeting was attended by the MARRI National Coordinators or Members of the MARRI Regional Committee from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro. Serbia was represented by the Ambassador of Serbia to Macedonia. Also Kosovo* was invited by the Macedonian Chairmanship-in-Office to participate at this Meeting

In close cooperation with US Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, MARRI Regional Centre developed VolVis Project in the framework of MARRI Network for Cooperation in Combating Traficking in Human Beings. VolVis Project started with study visit to USA of all members of the Network – National Coordinators in THB in the WB Region, including a representative from Kosovo*. The study visit named “Building a Regional Response to Human Trafficking” was organized in the period 16-27 November 2014, as a sub-regional project