New Challenges of the Regional Police Cooperation Within MARRI Initiative
New Challenges of the Regional Police Cooperation Within MARRI Initiative

Summary/Abstract: Due to the fact of perspective European integrative process of Western Balkans the authors focus their attention to the importance of Migration, Asylum, Refugees Regional Initiative (MARRI) as the specific form of the regional police cooperation. New challenges of the MARRI initiative are considered combating illegal migrations, harmonization of the national legislative frameworks regarding the EU asylum policy and the solving of the problem on refugees and displaced persons in the region of Western Balkans. The crucial support for the MARRI initiative is to be provided by the international organizations as: UNHCR, IOM, INTERPOL, OSCE, EUROPOL, FRONTEX and SELEC, as well the support from the MARRI Member States is tremendous and crucial for the initiative and for its ownership; it must be mentioned. Western Balkans countries are to implement bilateral agreements in the fields of legal and illegal migrations, asylum and refugees’ status being challenged by the phenomena of people smuggling, trafficking in human beings, drug and weapon smuggling, travel documents forging and the other forms of transborder crime. Speeding up of the EU accession process of Western Balkans states will enable overpowering of the MARRI’s challenges by finding out adequate ways of enhancing regional police cooperation.

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