ARMENIA WILL HAVE TO CONVEY HOME ILLEGAL MIGRANTS FROM GERMANY AT ITS OWN EXPENSE

PanArmenian News Network
Aug 5 2005

05.08.2005 05:59

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ August 1-5 the Armenian Foreign Ministry held the
second round of the discussions of the agreement “On persecution and
transit conveyance of illegal migrants” (agreement on readmission),
RA MFA press center reported. The German governmental delegation
lead by the permanent representative of the department of migration,
refugees and integration of the German Foreign Ministry Cornelia
Rogal-Grote. The Armenian party was represented by officials from
the Foreign Ministry, passport and visa department of the police,
department of migration and refugees under the RA government. The
first round of the negotiations took place in August 2004. During
the current negotiations the parties agreed on continuing and
completing the talks in 2005. The signing of the agreement on
readmission is one of the conditions for the integration into the
European structures. Such agreements regulate the mechanisms of
returning illegal migrants at the expense of the country they arrived
from. Presently Armenia has signed similar agreements with Denmark,
Lithuania and Switzerland. Agreements with Germany, Benelux states,
Norway, Czechia, Poland and Russia are still being discussed.