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

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.