The 2nd Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) of the Almaty Process took place in Astana, Kazakhstan on 22 September 2015. The meeting was organized by the Chair of the Almaty Process, the Republic of Kazakhstan, and focused on Labour Migration Opportunities and Challenges in Central Asia, Addressing Solutions for Migrants and Refugees.
Participants had also the opportunity to listen to presentations on activities and implementation structures of the Budapest Process, Prague Process as well as the Puebla Process. The meeting gathered representative of the Almaty Process Member States: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, the Republic of Turkey and Turkmenistan; Observer States: the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan; and Guest States: People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America; as well as representatives from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in its capacity of the Secretariat of the Prague Process and the Budapest Process.
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