The Relationship between the International Organization for Migration and China

Before the organization established formal relations with me, it helped me repatriate some China citizens who were defrauded by international criminal groups and left the country illegally. Officials from my permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva were invited to attend the seminar on immigration organized by the organization.

China became an observer in June 20001.

In 2003, the relationship between China and the International Organization for Migration developed smoothly. On April 1-2, the Ministerial Consultation on Asian Labor Migration was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The meeting was co-sponsored by the Ministry of Employment and Labor of Sri Lanka and the International Organization for Migration, and the Deputy Minister of Labor of Sri Lanka Bu Fazheng led a delegation to attend. On July 2-3, the Swiss Federal Government, with the assistance of the International Organization for Migration, held a consultation meeting on the Berne Initiative in Berne, attended by William Chan, Counsellor of the International Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On September 19- 19, Lenan Takamura, Senior Advisor for the Asia-Pacific Region of the International Organization for Migration, and his party visited China and held talks with the leaders of the International Department and the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the cooperation between China and the European Union in cracking down on illegal immigrants. Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang met with Takamura and his party.

On September 5, 2006, Ambassador Sha Zukang, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, signed the Agreement between People's Republic of China (PRC) and China and the International Organization for Migration on Establishing a Liaison Office in Beijing with Director-General McKinley of the International Organization for Migration in Geneva.

From June 65438+February 2007 to June 2000,2065438+June, China cooperated with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to carry out the immigration management capacity-building project in China. On April 20 1 1, the second phase of the China Entry-Exit Management Capacity Building Project, which lasted three years, was officially launched.