Azerbaijani Presidential Administration official: CIS countries' coordinated actions must be developed to effectively manage migration flow

Coordinated actions of the CIS countries must be developed to effectively manage the migration flows, Fuad Alasgarov, Head of the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration's Department for Work with Law-Enforcement Agencies, said.

"It is necessary to establish such a level of partnership between countries, which may provide for a coherent migratory policy allowing to take concrete measures to respond to contemporary challenges of migration," Alasgarov said at the 8th meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Migration Services in Baku today.

Alasgarov said that Azerbaijan has a large share of labor migration. Azerbaijan, where an outflow of migrants was marked, turns from a nation and a transit country into a country of destination. The growing number of foreign migrants necessitates strengthening control in this area, he added.

According to Alasgarov, Azerbaijan was the first country in the post-Soviet territory, facing with the problem of refugees and internally displaced people. More than a million of people were driven from their lands as a result of Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territory, he said.

"Migration causes many problems requiring coordination of all countries' efforts to develop comprehensive approaches to resolve them," Alasgarov said.

The meeting of heads of migration services focuses on the state and prospects of cooperation of the CIS member-states' migration services in information exchange, implementation of a program on cooperation of these countries in fighting illegal migration for 2009-2011, the business schedule of the CIS Council of Heads of Migration Services.

The implementation of common principles and mechanisms of organized involvement of migrant workers for employment in the CIS countries was also discussed. The heads of Azerbaijani, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Tajik migration services attended the meeting.


/Trend/