TIRANA, July 19 /ATA/-Director General of the State Police Ardi Veliu held a special meeting in Tirana with heads of border police delegations from the regional countries and Head of the DCAF Ljubljana.
The meeting was held in the context of the joint operation “DRINO 2018” organized by the DCAF and Albania’s State Police.
Attending the meeting were representatives of the border police of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia as well as representatives of the international bodies like DCAF Ljubljana, OSCE, IOM, FRONTEX, CEPOL, Racviac Center, IISG, Marri and UNODC.
The participants discussed on illegal migration in the region in an effort to find a common approach to face the situation and to draft a common plan of rapid reaction in case of a massive migratory influx.
Veliu acquainted the participants with the measures that the State Police has taken to prevent entry of illegal emigrants from Greece into Albania.
Head of the DCAF Ljubljana and head of BSP Anton Travner praised Albania State Police for the efforts to prevent smuggling of citizens from third countries coming to Greece to pass further into Montenegro with EU countries as their final destination./e.malaj/ /a.g/p.s./
