Parliamentary and security push to improve migration management
LIBYA – Youssef Al-Agouri, head of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Committee, discussed developments in illegal migration and ways of dealing with its repercussions on Wednesday with the Libyan Government’s Interior Minister, Maj Gen Issam Abu Zriba, in the presence of the head of the Anti-Illegal Migration Agency, Maj Gen Ambarek Bouharara, and the committee’s secretary, Hassan Al-Dersi.
Registering migrants and managing data
The meeting addressed the efforts of the Interior Ministry and the relevant agencies to monitor migrants’ circumstances and to develop systems for registering migrants, managing data, oversight and follow-up, as well as the challenges facing the institutions concerned and their human, technical and logistical needs.
Shelter centres, return and deportation
The participants discussed upgrading shelter centres and improving the basic services provided to migrants, facilitating return and deportation procedures in coordination with the countries concerned, and updating the relevant legal and regulatory frameworks to achieve a more comprehensive and sustainable approach.
Regional and international cooperation and shared responsibility
The meeting stressed the importance of expanding cooperation with international organisations and regional and international partners, particularly countries affected by the repercussions of illegal migration, describing it as a cross-border issue that requires international coordination based on a sharing of roles and responsibilities.
Border surveillance technology and capacity-building
The participants called for moving beyond mere coordination and information-sharing to practical partnerships that provide Libyan institutions with technical expertise and modern technologies, develop surveillance and border management systems and capacity-building programmes, and help create suitable conditions for implementing return and deportation programmes.
Contacts with embassies on receiving nationals
The meeting stressed the need to activate diplomatic contacts with embassies and missions accredited to Libya and urged the countries concerned to complete the procedures for receiving their nationals in order to speed up voluntary return and deportation in line with the applicable procedures, while safeguarding the interests of the parties concerned.
