On 20thSeptember 2012 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, Third meeting of the Project Strategic Committee consisted of Heads of the Border Police Services of the Project “Joint comprehensive approach in building co-operation between MARRI and SEPCA Member States’ border police on international airports” was organized in partnership with the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Macedonia and Bureau of Public Security – Sector for Border Affairs and Migration. H.E Gordana Jankuloska, Minister of Interior of the Republic of Macedonia

On 18 September, 2012 in Podgorica, the Fourth Steering Committee Meeting of the project Migration for Development in the Western Balkans (MIDWEB) was held. The MARRI RC Director was invited on this event representing MARRI RC as partner, but also as Chair of the Steering Committee Board. The meeting was attended by EU representative, the partner organizations as well as by the high level representatives from the beneficiary countries/ Ministry of labour. The project manager Ms. Magdalena Majkowska-Tomkin from IOM

In the framework of the Project “Joint comprehensive approach in building co-operation between MARRI and SEPCA Member States’ border police on international airport border crossing points”, the second Workshop on “Risk analysis on international airports” was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27-29 June 2012. Main objective of the Workshop was to improve capacities of Border Police risk analysis units on the international airports to perform risk analysis, both in the areas of irregular migration, trafficking of human beings and

Skopje, 7th June 2012 – International Organization for Migration (IOM) and MARRI RC organize the Roundtable on best practices in professional and socio-economic reintegration of skilled migrants, as a part of ongoing MIDWEB Project, in which MARRI RC is partner. The Roundtable will be held on 7th of June, 2012 in Hotel Arka, in Skopje. The main goal of the Roundtable is to exchange experience on the subject and to discuss and indentify modalities for further cooperation in that field.

From 06 to 08.06.2012 in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, RACVIAC-Centre for Security Cooperation and MARRI-Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative organized a Round table titled ‘Irregular Migration and Its Effects on Security’. The main purpose of the Round table is exchanging the information regarding the legislative aspects, standards, procedures, lessons learned and the challenges faced. The representative from EU Delegation in Macedonia made introductory speech. The experts from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, SELEC, RACVIAC and MARRI

On 26th April 2012 at Sofia International Airport, Bulgaria, in the framework of the Project “Joint comprehensive approach in building co-operation between MARRI and SEPCA Member States’ border police on international airport border crossing points, a Workshop on the topic “Current irregular migration trends, routes and modus operandi at the international airport border crossing points” was organized for the members of the Permanent Inter-Regional Working Group/Network for Cooperation consisted of Commanders of the Border Police Units from main international airports.

18 April 2012, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina – The Third Meeting of MARRI Network for Cooperation of National Anti-trafficking Coordinators took place on 17 April 2012 in Sarajevo. National coordinators from B&H, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia were present, as well as representatives from Albania and Croatia. The meeting was organized in the frame of the Workshop on Combating trafficking in human beings financed by TAIEX. The main outputs of the meeting were the conclusions regarding support and future steps in

On 02-03 April 2012, in Belgrade, Republic of Serbia, MARRI Regional Committee and MARRI Ministerial Regional Forum took place. The Serbian and Bosnian and Herzegovinian delegations were presented by the Ministers, H.E. Ivica Dacic, the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and H.E. Sadik Ahmetovic, Minister of Security of  Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other MARRI MS were presented by the Deputy Ministers. The event was attended by the international and regional organisations:

On 29th March 2012 in Bucharest the Second meeting of the Project Strategic Committee consisted of Heads of the Border Police Services of the Project “Joint comprehensive approach in building co-operation between MARRI and SEPCA Member States’ border police on international airport border crossing points” was organized. The event was  organized in partnership with the Romanian Border Police and SEPCA. The meeting was dedicated to the evaluation of the implemented Project activities and progress achieved so far and providing valuable

02 March 2012- Under the Serbian Presidency in Office, MARRI Friends Meeting was organized in Belgrade, Serbia on 2nd March 2012 attended by representatives from MARRI member states, Diplomatic Core and international organizations. Minister Ivica Dacic stated that Serbia will try to fulfill the tasks set to the adopted Regional Strategy and Action plan for the period from 2011 to 2013, and will support all activities of MARRI. He described EU candidate status for Serbia as a positive decision in