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23.11.2005
NA President Artur Baghdasaryan’s Speech at 26th PABSEC Plenary Session
Honorable Mr. President!
Honorable Colleagues!
Participants of the Session!
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Let me welcome the participants of the General Assembly in the name of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and personally me. It’s especially pleasant for me to participate in the Assembly and I’d like to express my thanks to PABSEC presiding country, Albania for warm reception and organization of excellent conditions for the work
The key problem of migration, as in the whole world, as well as in BSEC countries, is one of the painful problems. The migration from the moment of its separation as a special phenomenon was always observed in some context: economic or social, historical or cultural, demographic or ethnic. And that’s not accidental. The migration processes, on one hand, are strongly determined with changes taking place in the life of one or several countries at the same time, and in that sense, they practically become an indicator of political, ethno-social development, position in the labor market, etc.
In the 90s of the last century in our region a complicated process of forming national states, accompanying with obligatory or voluntarily moves of significant parts of population. The above mentioned relates to Armenia, which after the declaration of independence had to anticipate a lot of problems, conditioned by mass moves of the population.
To avoid the social shocks, most countries, including Armenia, as a country being in transition, pay special attention to that issue. The problems of large-scale importance, caused by the migration of the population, made us in Armenia, probably, in the other countries of the region, to seek a system of state intervention, during which the universal recognized rights and interests of immigrants and refugees would be harmonized with the national interests.
Based on the universally recognized norms of human rights, in the last years the legislation regarding the persons seeking refuge got developed in the Republic of Armenia.
The Government of each BSEC country has its sovereign right to decide the directions and goals of migration goals, in developing a complex of arrangements regulating the processes of external labor migration, it’s an expedient and necessary condition to adhere to certain legal norms and standards, which are fixed in the documents of international organizations.
Countries exporting and importing workforce, the international organizations on migration should improve the legislation, the mechanism of regulation of migration processes and flows, being led by the principles of freedom and democracy taking into account the national interests.
One of the important directions of integration in the world community of PABSEC member countries should become the ratification of international conventions, regulating the migration of labor migration.
With that those countries adopt the rule of international law towards national legislation, which has a great importance for the mentioned country from the viewpoint of its integration into world community, as well as for the immigrants, whose rights essentially expand abroad and need protection.
The issue of illegal migration is sharply put, which refers to the countries, which they leave and the countries, where they go. The PABSEC countries should concentrate their efforts, applying comprehensive, complex approach by implementing appropriate measures at each level of its origin and development of that phenomenon.
We should note the important role of the international organizations and NGOs in solving the problems of migration. In order to achieve the desirable results in that sphere the assistance of international is necessary for the arrangements of the measures, facilitating all stages of migration: leave, immigrants reception and accommodation, and concentrate the attention on the following direction:
- the immigrants’ social guarantees and social protection,
- implementation of purposeful programmes on the improvement of the immigrants’ welfare conditions,
- strengthening of the structures of human resources, being involved in the problems of migration, including the labor problems,
- methodological and material-technical assistance during the implementation of different programmes,
- taking the role of a mediator and initiator in concluding bilateral agreements in the sphere of migration,
- assistance to the process of membership in international conventions on migration,
- organization of free services for the help of immigrants and provide them with necessary information,
The international organizations should initiate the monitoring in the countries accepting the immigrants for the protection of their fundamental rights and interests.
Sharing the concern of the international organizations and democratic institutes in solving the problems of migration and refugees, BSEC countries shall coordinate their efforts in that direction, strengthen the cooperation with the international organizations and the bodies connected with it in order to develop and adopt concrete measures, facilitating all the stages of migration.
I’m convinced that we, the representatives of the parliaments in the shortest period shall develop principles and common directions in involving the executive power in all directions of cooperation for the solution of migration problems.
In completion of my speech I would like no note that we want it or not, there has been migration and there will be migration of population with its positive and negative consequences. Our duty is - to soften with joint efforts the negative revelations of that process and seek to have it turn from inter-state tense source into a factor uniting all of us.
Let me express my thanks in the name of the delegation of the Republic of Armenia to the organizers of this meeting and wish everybody effective and fruitful work.
Thank you for attention.
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