- Thematic Component: 1. Institutional Development of Border Control Agencies
- Country: Kyrgyzstan
From 1-3 February this year, the Border Management Programme in Central Asia, in partnership with the UN Refugee Agency and the International Organization for Migration, held a national workshop on international standards on the identification, detention and return of irregular migrants. Representatives of the Migration Council Secretariat under the Speaker of the Kyrgyz Parliament, the Foreign Ministry’s Department of External Migration, the Internal Affairs Ministry’s Service for Countering Extremism and Illegal Migration, the State Committee for National Security’s Border Guard Service, and the Ministry of Labour’s Department of Migration took part.