During a visit to Uzbekistan, ICMPD Director General signed a Memorandum of Understanding between ICMPD and the Agency for External Labor Migration under the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The mission started in Samarkand, Uzbekistan where ICMPD Director General, Michael Spindelegger, visited the Ishga Markhamat mono-centre for the unemployed as well as the Vocational Training Centre for Unemployed (KOICA).
In Tashkent, the Director General met with numerous representatives of the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, when the MOU signing took place. At the forefront of the meeting, migration issues such as regulating the processes of employment of citizens of Uzbekistan in European countries and ensuring their labour rights were discussed.
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