OREANDA-NEWS. September 05, 2008. Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Hryhoriy Nemyria opened the Eighth European Ministerial Conference of the Council of Europe on Migration in Kyiv.

“Earlier we have viewed migration as a threat. Migration isn’t a threat any longer, migration is an integration element, an element of global development,” Hryhoriy Nemyria announced. “A peculiar meaning it acquires for Ukraine, which is located on the crossroads of the migration ways”.

Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine emphasized that only a policy which respond in its principal element to the evident interconnection between the Eurointegration issues, issues of development and migration, can be effective.

Hryhoriy Nemyria also called on the participants of the conference to act in synergy over the problems joined to migration.

“With regards to migration issues, both legal and illegal, which traditional public opinion views as a threat and risk there exist a great element of opportunities, worth to be used,” Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine underlined.

Reference. On September 4-5 Kyiv hosted the Eighth European Ministerial Conference of the Council of Europe on Migration.