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Deputy Minister of Justice Meets with IOM Regional Director
Georgian Deputy Minister of Justice Giorgi Dgebuadze met with the Regional Director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for Europe and Central Asia, Arthur Erken, to discuss current developments and future priorities in the field of migration.
During the meeting, it was emphasized that effective migration management is not only an integral part of Georgia’s domestic policy, but also one of the key priorities within the country’s European integration agenda. The parties underlined the importance of maintaining a balanced approach that ensures both the protection of human rights and the safeguarding of state security interests in migration governance and efforts to combat trafficking in human beings.
The Georgian side expressed its gratitude to the IOM Regional Director for the strong and productive cooperation and conveyed its hope that the partnership will continue to deepen in the future.
The meeting was attended by the Head of the Department of International Relations and Legal Cooperation of the Ministry of Justice, Ketevan Sarajishvili; the Head of the State Services Development Agency, Rusudan Kokhodze; the Head of the Secretariat of the Governmental Commission on Migration Issues, Temur Goginov; as well as the Head of the IOM Mission in Georgia, Lars Johan Lønbak, and IOM Programme Development and Support Officer, Gentsi Pietri.