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106 6.2 Stockholm Programme (1-2 paragraphs in the text box created for each commitment) The relevant commitments in the Stockholm Programme for this sub-section are in particular: 4(c) ensuring that the objective of the EU’s efforts on readmission should add value and increase the efficiency of return policies, including existing bilateral agreements and practices Please describe how the bilateral and EU readmission agreements are contributing to the implementation of your Member State’s return policy. Readmission agreements between the Republic of Latvia and the European Union make contribution to successful fulfilment of return of illegal immigrants, by enabling efficient and targeted implementation of return activities. Implementation of the said agreements gives an opportunity for a third country to study a number of its nationals who have been returned by forced return from the Republic of Latvia for offences related to illegal residence. 4(e) assistance by the Commission and Frontex and Member States on a voluntary basis, to Member States which face specific and disproportionate pressures, in order to ensure the effectiveness of their return policies towards certain third states Please describe whether your Member State has benefited from / has provided any return support in case of specific and disproportionate pressures in your / in another Member State. Note that joint return flights are to be discussed under the following commitment. 4(f) increased practical cooperation between Member States, for instance by regular chartering of joint return flights Please describe practical cooperation with other Member States in the area of return, such as the organisation of joint return flights, the preparation of travel documents, etc. Please see the reply in Section 5.1. Illegal immigration IId. 6.3 Key statistics Third-country nationals ordered to leave and returned Ordered to leave Returned following an order to leave Returned as part of forced return measures Returned through an Assisted Return Programme Third-country nationals 193 209 195 94 16 194 7 Actions against human trafficking 193 Data summarised on 12 months of 2010. 194 Data provided by IOM Riga Office
107 7.1 European Pact on Immigration and Asylum (1-2 paragraphs in the text box created for each commitment) The relevant commitments in the Pact for this sub-section are in particular: II(e) cooperation with the countries of origin and of transit, in particular to combat human trafficking and to provide better information to communities under threat Please describe any (planned) actions at national level to fight human trafficking and incorporation of third countries within them, awareness raising actions in third countries addressing communities at risk, etc. Please only refer to cooperation with regard to combating human trafficking. Information on other types of cooperation will need to be provided in other sections of the report (e.g. Sections 10 and 13). Until now, Latvia has signed cooperation agreements for the cooperation in fight against terrorism, organized crime and illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors and other criminal offences, within the framework of which cooperation is envisaged also in fight against human trafficking with Uzbekistan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Armenia. Within the framework of the said agreements, information and data exchange is made, mutual operational activities are performed, as well as exchange of experience, consultations in the field of development of regulatory enactments, exchange of experience in the field of training or personnel. In 2010, two meetings of cross-border cooperation in the field of prevention of human trafficking were organized with, so far, the only country of origin of human trafficking victims as third-country national: competent officials of Belarus. On 10 June 2010, employees of the Human Trafficking Prevention Division of the Organised Crime Combating Department, the Chief Criminal Police Board of the State Police and the State Border Guard participated in the seminar which was organised in Vitebsk, Belarus "Cooperation of law enforcement institutions, international and non-governmental organizations in prevention of human trafficking". Within the framework of the seminar, meetings were held with the head of the criminal militia of the Narcotic Drugs and Human Trafficking Combating Department, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. During the meeting with responsible officials, future course of mutual cooperation was discussed, as well as combating of human trafficking in the period from the end of 2007 till 2009, the results of successfully completed cross-border investigation against a group of Latvian and Belarusian citizens who organized delivery of young women for voluntary prostitution to Riga for several years. In 2007-2009, a network of human trafficking and soutenerism was stopped as a result of the cross-border investigation which was made successfully in both countries, and the organizers of the said network have been convicted. Participation in the international conference “Combating of Human Trafficking: New Challenges and Treats", which was organized by the International Organization for Migration, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, the International Development Cooperation Agency of Sweden and the Swedish Institute, and was held on 15 October 2010 in Belarus, Minsk. Chairperson of the Board of society of Latvian governmental organisations "Asylum "Drošā māja"", S.Zalcmane, participated in the Conference with a presentation and mentioned as one of the most important problems the combating of fictitious marriages of citizens of Latvia as a new form in human trafficking, through cooperation of the state police, non-governmental institutions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the police of a destination country. Latvia is still deemed as the country of origin of victims from human trafficking, and there is no basis to declare that Latvia has become a transit and/or destination country of human trafficking victims. In 2010, no cases of human trafficking transit has been detected in Latvia, same as cases of human trafficking according to the understanding of the Protocol to prevent,
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3 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMA
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7 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Methodology
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9 2. POLITICAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK
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13 illegal immigrants, as well as b
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15 Confederation of Latvia, Elīna
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19 4. LEGAL IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRA
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21 consular mission of a member sta
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27 Affairs and the Latvian Language
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31 6) the regulatory enactment expa
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35 A minor third-country national o
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37 In 2010, the Ministry of Justice
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39 6) Latvian Language Agency imple
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41 On 10 March 2010, Cabinet Regula
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49 In 2010, the Office of Citizensh
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51 In 2007-2009, a network of human
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53 Tasks at Sea by the Use of Techn
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Page 83 and 84: 83 Literature: ‣ Apstiprina jaunu
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Page 87 and 88: 87 http://www.iem.gov.lv/lat/aktual
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