This Workshop, held on 17 and 18 December 2015 in Skopje, was aimed at harmonizing procedures for establishing identity of irregular migrants and drafting a common document i.e. Guidelines for establishing identity of irregular migrants who have no identification documents with participation of MARRI Participants competent representatives from the Ministries of Internal Affairs or Ministries of Security.

The MARRI Regional Centre in cooperation with the Interior Ministry of Montenegro  organized the Third Annual Meeting of the Permanent inter-regional working group/network for cooperation (hereinafter PIRWG/NC) on operational level composed of Heads of the border police units on main international airports from Southeast European Countries- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia and Kosovo, which took place on 16 December in Budva, Montenegro. The objective of the annual meetings under BORDAIRPOL Project is to make possibility for the

MARRI Committee Meeting under the Montenegro Chairmanship was held on 10 December 2015 in Danilovgrad, Montenegro. It gathered MARRI Committee members, National Coordinators and National Representatives in MARRI Regional Centre. The participants discussed current operational and financial issues for the Centre and recommended Annual Action Plan and Budget for adoption to the Regional Forum of Ministers. View gallery

Working meeting with the participation of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the MARRI Participants was held on 26 and 27 November, 2015 in order to work on the legal framework with special focus on the challenges and the issues from the perspective of international and legal cooperation.

On 24th November 2015, in the MARRI RC premises in Skopje, a meeting dedicated on finding possible modalities for safer and more efficient transport of vulnerable migrants between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Serbia at Tabanovce-Miratovac was held the organization of this meeting came after intensified discussion between MARRI and GIZ office in Skopje. On the meeting were present officials from: The Republic of Macedonia – Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy and Crisis Management Centre

Second workshop on the legal framework was held 1 and 2 October 2015 in Skopje, Macedonia. It was an opportunity for the MARRI Participants officials for further regional consultations on the legal framework for use of joint interpretation capacities for rare languages in the Western Balkans region

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