23 Aug 2019
Joint Press Statement The 23rd Meeting of the ASEAN Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Heads of Consular Affairs Divisions of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (DGICM) and Its Related Meetings
1. The 23rd DGICM and Its Related Meetings were held on 19 – 21 August 2019 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. It was chaired by U Htay Hlaing, Director General of Immigration Myanmar, and attended by all ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Secretariat.
2. The Meeting was preceded by the 3rd ASEAN Heads of Major Immigration Checkpoints Forum (AMICF) and the 15th ASEAN Immigration Intelligence Forum (AIIF) on 19 August 2019 in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. The 3rd AMICF discussed on the mechanism to develop the foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) Movement Database among ASEAN Member States and the operationalisation of the AMICF communication channel, whereas the 15th AIIF reviewed the salient outcomes of the 3rd AMICF and discussed the way forward for the Plan of Action (PoA) to Implement the Intelligence Data Sharing Protocol (IDSP) as well as the Terms of Reference (ToR) of the AIIM.
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