5th Regional Conference On Migration To Be Held In Istanbul

ANKARA - The 5th Regional Conference on Migration organized by the Council of Europe (COE) will be held in Istanbul between September 30th and October 1st.
Sources said on Wednesday that the venue of the conference would be Conrad Hotel, and gave the following information regarding the participating countries:
-10 transition countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia and Ukraine,
-Six target countries: Norway, France, Germany, Britain, Greece and Spain,
-Nine countries, not members of COE: Afghanistan, Belarus, Bangladesh, China, Libya, India, Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco,
-Three countries from which people migrate: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Nearly 60 participants from international organizations, universities, nongovernmental organizations and COE Parliamentary Assembly are expected to attend the conference.
Turkish Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu and COE Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio will jointly open the conference.
Turkey, which is located in a region with a high flow of migrants, has earlier offered to host the 5th Regional Conference on Migration, sources added.
(EÖ-ULG) 15.09.2004