DUSHANBE, August 7, 2009, Asia-Plus — The next meeting of the working group for formation of a system of exchange of information between migration services of the CIS states will be held in Minsk, Belarus from August 18-19, according to press release issued by the CIS Executive Committee.
Migration service heads from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine met in May this year to discuss cooperation issues.
Representatives from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), International Center for Development of Migration Policy, General Confederation of Trade Unions (GCTU) and Delegation of the European Commission in Moscow attended that meeting as observers, press release said.
The May meeting made a decision to work out the draft document, General Principles and Mechanisms of Organized Recruitment of Labor Migrants for Labor Activity in the CIS States.
The meeting also considered the mechanism of coordination of interaction in the field of migration policy of bodies for sectoral cooperation within the CIS area. These bodies are authorized to consider migration issues, define priorities of cooperation between migration services and form a system of exchange of information between the CSI migration services, etc.
