The 8th Council of Europe conference of Ministers responsible for Migration Affairs will take place in Kyiv (Ukraine) on 4-5 September 2008 in International Exhibition Cente. The theme of the conference is 'Economic migration, social cohesion and development: towards an integrated approach'.


The Conference will be discussed the connection between economic migration and development from point of invited countries and countries that receive, and also the role of migration in development. The Conference will provide an opportunity for ministers and other participants to debate at the non-formal meetings and to communicate in the relaxed atmosphere. In the context of economic migration, the conference will discuss how governments in the member states have responded in order to preserve social cohesion and identify how policies in this field can be improved.


At the Conference there will be ministers from 40 member-states of Council of Europe which are responsible for questions that are connected with migration and fence-mending with local societies. Ministers from several non-member states, which are not members, but have an observer status with the Council of Europe (Australia, Canada, Holy See, Japan, Mexico and USA) or involved in co-operation with member states on the themes of the conference (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cape Verde, China, Congo, India, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Morocco, Senegal, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Uzbekistan) have also been invited to take part together with the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and other international governmental and non-governmental organisations.


The Conference will be held in the International Exhibition Center. The International Exhibition Center which is a leader in the organising of such large universal forums and has special certificate of the Council of Europe for the high level of organisation of the 7th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Policy in Mass Media.


The International Exhibition Center is situated on the left bank of the river Dnepr which is 15 minutes drive from the city centre and the hotels, where the participants of the Conference will be accommodated. For organisation of this Conference the International Exhibition Center provides pavilions which are fully equipped due to the higher international standards.


The territory of the International Exhibition Center is 10 000 m2. There were built and equipped 44 rooms, such as: offices of the directorate and the Secretariat of the Council of Europe, an office of the Commissar on human rights of the Council of Europe, rooms for meetings of a working group and rooms for talk-back communication, first-aid post, restaurants and the main hall for meeting, conference halls and press center. There are 15 booths for simultaneous interpretation. The main hall has photodiode screens and offices are equipped with 40 plasma panels for broadcasting of events during the Conference. There is also 100 telephone lines and 120 the Internet- channels and 30 of them is in press centre. Due to norms of organisation of European events, offices are equipped by necessary office appliances, furniture and labour-saving devices that are used in organisation of large international forums.


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