EEC and SCTO work on memorandum on cooperation in illegal migration  sector

ArmInfo. Memorandum project on cooperation between the competent bodies of SCTO and EEC was discussed during the 20th meeting. From the Eurasian Economic 

Commission, the head of the secretariat of the member of the Board 

(Minister) for Economic and Financial Policy of the EEC, Askar 

Kishkembayev, as well as the staff of the Department of Labor 

Migration and Social Protection of the EEC participated in the event.

The memorandum creates basis for cooperation between EEC and CSTO 

state-members in the sector of support to legal labor migration to 

EEU and the security of common market of labor from illegal work 

force from third countries.

The document supposes exchange of information-analytic materials, 

normative legal acts, participation in joint activities. Within the 

framework of the memorandum the coordination of common approaches and 

principles is planned.

The Secretariat of CSTO  informed the participants that the 

memorandum approved during the meeting of Consultative Committee on 

Migration Policy by EEC was approved in accordance with the offers of 

competent departments of the CSTO state-members and is directed to 

the states for implementing intra state procedures aimed at its 

further signing. 

The participants of the meeting discussed the immigration situation 

in CSTO state-members and made decision that the annually held in the 

OSCE format for operational and preventive measures to counter 

illegal migration under the conventional name "Illegal", will be 

assigned the status of a permanent regional operation of the CSTO.

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) is the permanent regulatory 

body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). It started work on 

February 2, 2012. The main purpose of the Eurasian Economic 

Commission is ensuring the functioning and development of the EEU, 

and developing proposals for the further development of integration. 

Currently there are five EEC countries: The Republic of Armenia, the 

Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic 

and the Russian Federation. The EEC has supranational regulatory body 

status and its activity is guided by the interests of the 

participating countries of the Eurasian Economic integration project 

in general, not motivating its decisions by any interests of national 

Governments. Decisions of the Commission are obligatory for execution 

on the territory of the EEU Member States.