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On 1-2 June 2016 the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the Coordinator of the EMN National Contact Point for the Slovak Republic organised, together with the Bureau of Border and Alien Police of the Police Force Presidium, a small scale meeting for the representatives of selected bodies active in the field of law making and application process related to the legal and irregular migration of the third-country nationals to Slovakia.

In the framework of the first Presidency of Slovakia in the Council of the EU International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the EMN Coordinator for the Slovak Republic organised an international conference on Rethinking Returns from the EU: Sustainable Returns and Cooperation with Countries of Origin. The conference held on 6 - 7 July 2016 in Bratislava sought to discuss current state of play, good practice and lessons learned in return and reintegration of migrants from outside the EEA for further use by the EU and its Member States.

On 28 January 2016, EMN National Contact Point (NCP) for the UK with support of the Home Office, Department for Communities and Local Government and Department for International Development organised a conference titled “Learning from the past to design a sustainable resettlement programme for Syrian refugees in the UK” in London. Among speakers of the conference were representatives from the UK’s Home Office - UK’s Syrian Resettlement Programme, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Office in the United Kingdom, Refugee Council, the European Commission, various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) providing support with integration of refugees in the UK and representatives from among the employers - private companies.

On the 12 and 13 January 2016 at the occasion of the Netherlands’ Presidency of the Council of the European Union the EMN Annual Conference titled ‘Promoting the Multidisciplinary Approach in Addressing Migrant Smuggling’ was organised in Amsterdam by the Dutch EMN National Contact Point in cooperation with the European Commission and the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice.  

On 4 December 2015, the Belgian EMN National Contact Point organised the EMN National Conference in Brussels on Return of Irregular and Vulnerable Migrants. In the context of the current migratory situation, the conference served as a platform for experts to discuss good practices and challenges related to return with a specific focus on vulnerable migrants.