G7 Interior Ministers Meeting: Merad holds talks with IOM’s General Director

ALGIERS-The Minister of Interior, Local Authorities and National Planning, Brahim Merad, held talks with the General Director of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), Amy Pop, on the sidelines of the G7 meeting of Interior ministers, organized in Mirabella Eclano (Italy), the Ministry said Saturday in a press release.

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During this meeting, the two parties hailed “the quality of cooperation relations between Algeria and IOM and the good dynamic of the joint work,” said the same source.

In this regard, “the IOM’s General Director commended the Algerian authorities’ efforts in supporting the organisation’s action, by mobilising human and material resources to provide humanitarian aid to the migrants and facilitating its work in the voluntary return of migrants.”[/ecr]