DUSHANBE, April 25, Asia-Plus -- A roundtable meeting formally titled “Labor Migration from Central Asia and RF Migration Policy in Urals Region” will be held in Yekaterinburg, the capital of Russia’s Sverdlovskaya region, on April 27.

The meeting, staged by the Tajik Branch of Open Society Institute/Assistance Foundation (OSI/AF) and Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan under support of Ombudsman’s Office in the Sverdlovskaya region, aims to discuss ways to promote projecting the strategy of cooperation and development of initiatives to tackle problems of labor migration from Central Asia’s states to the Sverdlovskaya region. 

Rukhshona Olimova, media program coordinator, Tajik Branch of OS/AF, said that the meeting will discuss the present labor migration situation in the Urals region and study experience in tackling problems of the labor migration as well as work out recommendations on reducing crime rate among labor migrants, etc.  

The meeting is expected to work out the strategy of permanent interregional interaction between public associations and key state structures of Russia and the Central Asian countries dealing with labor migration to create a mechanism of regional cooperation and lobbing, Olimova said.  

The meeting participants include ombudsman for the Sverdlovskaya region, representatives from local authorities, Russian federal migration and drug control services, Tajik counternarcotics agency, Kyrgyz drug control agency, migrations services of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as public associations and international organizations active in Central Asia and the Russian Federation.