POLICY REPORT ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN LATVIA ...

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aimed to strengthen the institutional capacity of Georgia in matters of migration and population
register, by organising a training visit for 5 officials of Georgia. Besides, in spring of this year,
the Border Guard of Latvia organised a training seminar about security of travel documents and
detection of counterfeit documents, which was attended by representatives of the Border Guard
of Georgia. Concurrently with the said activities, the State Border Guard in cooperation with
FRONTEX agency is addressing the possibility of implementing a project in the field of border
management, namely, to provide aid to establishment of the Cynology Service of the Border
Guard of Georgia and its further development.
An example table is presented below.
Type of agreement Third countries involved Main purpose of the
agreement
(EU or bilateral)
Bilateral agreement Republic of Albania Cooperation in combating
terrorism, organized crime,
illicit trafficking in narcotic
drugs, psychotropic
substances and precursors.
Bilateral agreement Republic of Armenia Cooperation in the fight
against criminal offences to
morality and sexual offence,
sexual exploitation,
particularly of children,
criminal offences related to
illegal immigration.
In 2010, the competent Latvian authorities have commenced the process of harmonization
of the following agreements:
• Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Latvia and the Government of
the Republic of Belarus regarding the regime of the Latvia—Belarus state border;
• Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Latvia and the Government of
the Russian Federation regarding places of crossing the Latvian-Russian state border.
Since agreements regarding cooperation in the field of prevention and combating of
organised crime envisage also potential cooperation in the field of prevention and combating of
illegal migration, draft agreements of the above-mentioned field with Russian, Tajikistan and
Turkmenistan are in the process of harmonization.
V(b) offer the nationals of partner countries to the East and South of Europe opportunities for
the legal immigration
Please indicate whether, in relation to the labour migration policy and related
developments set out in Section 1.1, whether any of these favour labour and circular
migration and specify which third countries from the East and South of Europe.