This page contains general information about the APC but it is not its official website.
Established: 1996
The APC has been dormant and inactive since 2014.
Objectives
The Inter-governmental Asia-Pacific Consultations on Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants (APC) was established in 1996 to provide a forum for the discussion of issues relating to population movements, including refugees, displaced persons and migrants. Its aim is to promote dialogue and explore opportunities for greater regional cooperation on these matters.
Thematic Focus
- Mixed flows
- Asylum and refugees
- Forced displacement, IDPs
- Durable solutions to refugee situations burden sharing
- Return and reintegration
- Border governance
- Countering human trafficking
- Countering Migrant smuggling
- Countering irregular migration
- Data
- Emergency response and contingency planning
Secretariat
The Secretariat was housed first in Thailand and then in Australia.
- Members
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34 Members
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei Darussalam
- Cambodia
- China
- Fiji
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Republic of Korea
- Lao PDR
- Malaysia
- Micronesia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- Nepal
- France
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Samoa
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Vanuatu
- Viet Nam
- Hong Kong, SAR China
- Macao, SAR China
- Observers
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4 Observers
- Selected Meetings
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A non-comprehensive listing of APC meetings:
- 1996 Canberra, Australia
- 1997 Bangkok, Thailand
- 1998 Bangkok, Thailand
- 1999 Katmandu, Nepal
- 2002 China
- 2005 China
- 2006 China
- 2007 Bangladesh
- 2008 Samoa
- Contact information
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APC Website:
http://www.apcprocess.net (inactive)