POLICY REPORT ON IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM IN LATVIA ...

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of the Mobility Partnership with Georgia, in the end of 2009 Latvia implemented a project
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 2010, 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.
On 11-14 October 2010, three leading officials of the Moldovan judicial system visited
Latvia within the framework of the development cooperation project. The project aimed to
provide support to the strengthening of the rule of law, democracy and administrative capacity
of Moldova. During the visit for exchange of experience, the representatives of Moldova
familiarised themselves with the work organisation of the Latvian judicial system institutions
and met officials of the Supreme Court, the Riga Regional Court, the Court Administration,
and the Latvian Judicial Training Centre. Moldova as the key current objective has set its
integration to the European Union, thus the implementation of this project made a positive
contribution to the course of reforms in Moldova. The project was implemented by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Court Administration with Court
Administration.
It must be admitted that, due to the lack of funds for development cooperation projects
in 2010, involvement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the field of development
cooperation projects regarding migration has been limited. 169
On 21 December 2010 the Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee of the Saeima
decided to make amendments in laws and regulations to make the Office of Citizenship and
Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Interior responsible for decision making for granting of the
politically repressed persons status in order to prevent ungrounded granting of the status and
provide qualitative process for granting of the status. 170
169 Information provided by officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
170 Saeima komisija vienojas par politiski represētās personas statusa piešķiršanas centralizāciju. (Committee of
the Saeima Agrees on Centralizing the Granting Procedure of Politically Repressed Person’s Status).//
http://www.lv.lv/index.phpmenu=doc&sub=pr&id=223100 – [see: 17.01.2011.]