Anadolu Agency
Sept 15 2004
5th Regional Conference On Migration To Be Held In Istanbul
Anadolu Agency: 9/15/2004
ANKARA – The 5th Regional Conference on Migration organized by the
Council of Europe (COE) will be held in Istanbul between September
30th and October 1st.
Sources said on Wednesday that the venue of the conference would
be Conrad Hotel, and gave the following information regarding the
participating countries:
-10 transition countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia
and Ukraine,
-Six target countries: Norway, France, Germany, Britain, Greece
and Spain,
-Nine countries, not members of COE: Afghanistan, Belarus, Bangladesh,
China, Libya, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco,
-Three countries from which people migrate: Armenia, Azerbaijan
and Georgia.
Nearly 60 participants from international organizations, universities,
nongovernmental organizations and COE Parliamentary Assembly are
expected to attend the conference.
Turkish Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu and COE Deputy Secretary
General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio will jointly open the conference.
Turkey, which is located in a region with a high flow of migrants,
has earlier offered to host the 5th Regional Conference on Migration,
sources added.