All media representatives are cordially invited to the launch of the EU funded Twinning project “Assistance to the Ministry of Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees and other competent authorities in effectively managing migration”, which will take place on Thursday, 4 March 2010 at 13:00 hrs at the hotel “Terme” Ilidza in Sarajevo(Hrasnicka cesta 14) . Attached is agenda.
The overall objective of the project is to ensure that BiH authorities practice effective migration management and suppression of illegal activities related to smuggling of migrants and trafficking of human beings in accordance with the EU standards.
The European Union provided 750.000 € for this Twinning project from IPA funds while the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service and Danish Immigration service shall ensure qualified and experienced experts for its implementation, supported by experts from Czech Republic, Finland and Slovakia. The duration of the project is 18 months and main beneficiary is BiH Ministry of Security, together with its agencies SIPA, Border Police and Service for Foreigners Affairs, as well as BiH Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees.
Twinning is an instrument used in the context of EU assistance for candidate countries to strengthen their administrative and institutional capacity in preparation for membership of the European Union. It has become available also for potential candidates to assist them in adapting their administrations to implement the aquis communautaire and take on the obligations that future membership will bring.
Twinning not only provides technical and administrative assistance to the beneficiary country but also helps to build long-term relationship between the old, new and future EU member states and brings the beneficiary country into wider contact with the diversity of administrative practices inside the EU.
For more details please contact: Satko Mujagic, Resident Twinning Adviser Phone: +387 33 492 765 E-mail: satko.mujagic@msb.gov.ba AGENDA: 13:00–14:45 Welcome Addresses
Mr. Mijo Kresic, deputy Minister, Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr. BORIS IAROCHEVITCH, HEAD OF OPERATIONS, EU Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina
h.e. Ambassador Sweder Van Voorst tot Voorst, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands H.E. Ambassador Kirsten Geelan Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark Presentation of the Twinning project
Mr. H.C. Van Hoorn, Project Leader. Immigration and naturalization service, Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands
Mr. G. Versluis, Deputy Head, Immigration and naturalization service, Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands
14:45-15:00 Questions from media
Moderator, Mr. S. Mujagic, Resident Twinning Advisor, Immigration and naturalization service, Ministry of Justice of the Netherlands
15:00-16:00 Reception – drinks and snack
