PROGRAM OF SOLUTION ON MIGRATION ISSUES IS UNDER DESIGN

Aysor
Feb 19 2010
Armenia

The three-year Program of Contribution to the Development of the
Migration Policy has been summed up today, after being implemented
in 2007-2009 by joint efforts of the International Center for Human
Development, the British Council, and the Migration Agency of the
Ministry of Territorial Administration of Armenia.

Secretary of the National Security Council of Armenia, Arthur
Baghdasaryan, has announced today that a working group set to work
over the program on migration issues. The program is expected to be
designed in the near 2-3 months by the working group, created under
the decree by interdepartmental commission on coordination between
Armenia and the EU.

"We hope that in the near two or three month the program will be
delivered, providing a complex document to solve the migration issues,"
said Arthur Baghdasaryan pointing the importance of the solution to
these issues to Armenia in sense of national security and issues of
managing the migratory flows and risks.

According to Arthur Baghdasaryan, nest year Armenia will put into
operation the biometric passports, which will provide stronger basis
for Armenia-EU cooperation.