Strategy for integrated border management

allotment of realized funds indicates to default of international assistance in the field
of integrated border management, which is, due to its importance, an extremely
unfavourable trend.
9. VISAS, ASYLUM, AND ILLEGAL MIGRATIONS
On the level of the State Union, it is necessary to develop a unified approach to visa,
asylum, and migration issues in accordance with the Constitutional Charter,
particularly the full harmonization of visa regime in both Republics. Control
mechanisms of the realization of asylum, migrations, and visa policies should be
established, as they are prescribed in detail on the level of the State Union, but are
applied only on the level of republics; also the initiative for undertaking measures
should be addressed to the institutions of Serbia and Montenegro.
As for the policy of visas, there are measures undertaken to harmonize policies of
Serbia and Montenegro on the level of the State Union.
In 2003 Serbia and Montenegro decided to change the visa regime and cancel
unilaterally visas for about 40 European and non-European countries, including all
the member countries of the European Union. Visa regime was introduced for several
African and Asian countries, procedures for issuing visas to citizens of migratory risky
countries and for countries from which victims of trafficking originate were also made
stricter. Serbia and Montenegro has a reciprocal non-visa régime with all former
Yugoslav republics, except with Slovenia.
It is necessary to continue with activities related to harmonization of visa régime in
accordance with recommendations of the European Union, but priorities are to be
adapted to the Schengen Accord and to the black and white lists of the European
Union.
With the aim to make procedures of issuing visas better, it is necessary to improve
the work of diplomatic-consular missions. Also, it is necessary to define precisely the
cases of issuing a visa at the border (in exceptional cases), to change the rules on
length of temporary stay, and to separate clearly visa régime from sojourn and work
permits.
As a transit country on the route of migrants from Asia and Africa toward the
European Union, Serbia faces aggravated challenges in resolving problems of illegal
migrants. In the context of modern migration flows, she represents a state of
emigration which is at the same time exposed to intensive transit migratory
movements. This actual situation causes complex consequences to security and
state interests in general.
In order to solve those problems, it is imperative to fend off illegal migrations,
particularly those from our country to other countries of the European Union and
countries candidates.
The present problem in preventing illegal migrations in this region is inadequately
secured border on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, namely with Albania and
Macedonia in the UNMIK zone of responsibility. Having in view that these two
frontiers have an unimpeded flow of smuggling of drugs, trafficking, particularly as
channels for human trafficking, it is necessary to take preventive measures to
frustrate illegal migration on the level of the region of southeast Europe. Serbia and