CIS Conference

Established 1996

Former Focus

  • Refugees
  • IDPs and persons in refugee-like situations
  • Epatriates
  • Ecological migrants
  • Migration management (combating illegal migration and trafficking, border management)
  • Migrants' rights
  • Return and reintegration
  • Population/demography

12 Members (in red)

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Georgia

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Moldova

Russian Federation

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

Uzbekistan



36 Interested States (in blue)

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Canada

China

The Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Holy See

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Iran

Italy

Japan

Latvia

Lithuania

Mongolia

The Netherlands

Norway

Pakistan

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

The United Kingdom

The United States of America


Partner and Observer Institutions

Secretariat

UNHCR, IOM and OSCE/ODHIR acted as joint secretariat for the Conference and provided technical support to the Follow-up Process

The CIS Conference ended in 2005.