FRONTEX experts to assist authorities in managing refugee flow at state border

13:34 | 02.06.2022 Category: Political

Chisinau, June 2 / MOLDPRES /- The Parliament voted today in the first reading the draft ratification of the Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union on the operational activities carried out by the European Agency for Border Police and Coast Guard in the Republic of Moldova (FRONTEX).

The main purpose of the document is to create the legal framework for the deployment of FRONTEX experts to provide the General Inspectorate of Border Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the necessary support in managing the regional crisis and the flow of refugees from the Moldovan-Ukrainian border. All expenses related to the work of FRONTEX experts in Moldova will be covered by the European Border Police and Coast Guard Agency.

Currently, the General Inspectorate of Border Police and the FRONTEX Agency are collaborating on the basis of a working arrangement, signed in 2008, which provides for a limited mandate by FRONTEX personnel seconded to Moldova in joint activities, with observer status.

The agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union on the operational activities carried out by the European Agency for the Border Police and Coast Guard in the Republic of Moldova was signed on March 17, 2022, in Brussels.

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