SKOPJE, Macedonia – The MARRI Regional Centre organised the Third Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Document Security and Establishment of Identity titled Authenticity of Identification Documents, which took place at the MARRI Regional Centre in Skopje on 20 – 21 September 2007. This meeting is part of the Project on Document Security in the MARRI Region, as financed by the UK Government. The Project on Document Security in the MARRI Region, whose duration is from January to December

SKOPJE, Macedonia – The extraordinary meeting of the MARRI Regional Forum was held in the MARRI Regional Centre on 26 June 2007. The MARRI National Coordinators discussed the past and future MARRI activities since the MARRI Regional Forum in Sarajevo held on 26 April 2007. The subject matters included the election of new Director of the MARRI Regional Centre (Mr. Trpe Stojanovski, Republic of Macedonia), priorities of Croatian MARRI Presidency-in-office, modification of old and introduction of new MARRI basic documents

SKOPJE, Macedonia – The MARRI Regional Centre organised the Second Meeting of the Regional Working Group on Document Security and Establishment of Identity titledRegistration of Birth, Nationality and Residence in Country and Abroad in Skopje on 18 – 19 June 2007. This event is part of Project on Document Security in the MARRI Region, financed by the UK Government (January – December 2007). This Project is in line with the MARRI Strategy and Programme of Action for 2006/2007 and its objectives

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Hercegovina – The MARRI Regional Forum was held in Sarajevo on 26 April 2007. Bosnia and Herzegovina concluded its year-long Presidency within the framework of MARRI, while the Republic of Croatia took over the one-year Presidency of the initiative that will last from April 2007 to April 2008. This meeting gathered regional high state representatives responsible for issues of migration, asylum and refugees of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, while the participants also

BANJA LUKA, Bosnia and Herzegovina – The preparatory meeting for the next MARRI  Regional Forum was held in Banja Luka on 16 April 2007. The meeting was envisaged as the preparation for the MARRI Regional Forum on ministerial level to be held in Sarajevo on 26 April 2007. The Presidency of the MARRI Regional Forum (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the MARRI Regional Centre in Skopje organised this meeting, with the participation of political directors from MFAs and MOIs from six

RAKITJE, Croatia – The Regional Arms Control Verification Implementation Assistance Centre (RACVIAC) and the MARRI Regional Centre organised the seminar “Irregular Migration and its Effects on the Security”, in Rakitje near Zagreb from 27 to 28 March 2007. The aim of this seminar was to discuss the main challenges the states in the region face in their efforts to tackle increasingly complex and diverse phenomenon of irregular migration and its effects to security, trafficking and smuggling of human beings, document

SKOPJE, Macedonia – The meeting within the Programme for the Enhancement of Anti-trafficking Responses in South Eastern Europe – Data Collection and Information Management was held in the MARRI Regional Centre on 15 March 2007. The objectives of this meeting were as follows: – to present the DCIM Project to the participants, namely the proposal for the establishment of two databases on trafficking in human beings, one for judicial data and one for victim-centered data; – to discuss data collection

SKOPJE, Macedonia – The MARRI Regional Centre organised the first Meeting of the Working Group on Document Security and Establishment of Identity, which took place at the MARRI Regional Centre in Skopje on 5 and 6 February 2007. The event was made possible by the kind financial assistance of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and was attended by regional experts from the national institutions managing areas related to document security and establishment of

SKOPJE, Macedonia – In accordance with MARRI Strategy and Programme of Action for 2006/2007, the MARRI Regional Centre in Skopje organised a Workshop on Document Security and Establishment of Identity in Skopje on 23 and 24 November 2006. The participants had an opportunity to get familiarised with document security and establishment of identity concepts from MARRI Member States, the European Union countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom), USA and relevant international organisations (such as Europol,

TIRANA, Albania – The Director of the MARRI Regional Centre, Mrs. Alenka Prvinšek, held a briefing for members of diplomatic core in the Republic of Albania in Tirana on 20 November 2006. She presented the priorities from the MARRI Strategy and Programme of Action for 2006 and 2007 in the fields of migration, asylum and return process, visa and consular cooperation and integrated border management, with an overview of MARRI Regional Centre’s present and future activities. The meeting underlined the