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SARAJEVO, October 15 (FENA) – BiH Council of Ministers held the 31st extraordinary telephone session today and determined the Proposal of Readmission Agreement between the Council of Ministers of BiH and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Proposal of the Protocol between the Ministry of Security of BiH and the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan of this agreement.
Proposals for agreements and protocols will be submitted to the Presidency of BiH for further procedure provided by law, with a proposal to appoint the Minister of Security of BiH as their signatory.
By concluding this agreement, BiH and Pakistan confirm their readiness to join international actions to prevent illegal migration, because the Agreement regulates the issues of admission of their own citizens, third-country nationals and stateless persons residing in the territory of a contracting party contrary to their laws.
This is an extremely important agreement for BiH, which in recent years has become a very interesting country for illegal migration on the "Balkan route" in the chain of countries through which the process of smuggling persons, drugs, vehicles and other forms of organized crime takes place.
According to the established draft protocol, the competent authorities for receiving, submitting and processing readmission requests, as well as those for transit, are the Ministry of Security for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Ministry of Interior for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Readmission and reception of citizens of the two countries and the transit of foreigners will take place through the international airports in Sarajevo and Islamabad.
The Agreement shall enter into force 30 days after the date of receipt of the last notification exchanged between the two states and the completion of the internal legal procedure necessary for its entry into force. The Protocol enters into force on the same day as the Agreement, the Council of Ministers of BiH announced.
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