The Cooperation Principle as the Fundumental Principle of the UNHCR Activity and Its Implementation in the Migration Policy of the Republic of Belarus (Larisa Vassilieva)

Раздел - "50 лет Управлению Верховного комиссара Организации Объединенных Наций по делам беженцев"The article considers the issues pertaining to cooperation and interaction between the UNHCR, the state bodies of the Republic of Belarus and the NGOs on the problems of refugees. The author discusses the content of the concept of "integration" and proposes specific actions within the framework of joint activities of the UNHCR, the Committee on Migration at the Ministry of Labour of the Republic of Belarus, bodies of internal affairs and the NGOs. The process of interaction demonstrates common fundamental approaches such as humanism, confidentiality, promptness and correlation. The article identifies the main factors determining the nature of the interaction of the law-enforcing bodies: protection of refugees from overall legislation (in certain cases) and treating them according to the international standards adopted for this category of migrants. Based on the above, the article suggests the following: a) to set apart the work with refugees as a separate kind of administrative activity; b) to provide for the corresponding training for the work in this field of law enforcement. Some variants of content for training activities are suggested. There is an objective necessity of an in-depth study of criminological aspects of illegal migration on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. In this connection some open forms of joint activity are suggested in order to receive the necessary assistance from NGOs. While analysing regional and international experience in harnessing the NGOs' potential in solving the problems of asylum-seekers, the author stresses the important part NGOs play in implementing integration programmes and draws attention to the requisite conditions of such activity (empowering NGOs with state functions, providing subsidies etc.). With the factor of ethnic distance taken into account, the paper determines the priorities mentioned above — multi-vector information support of the refugees' stay on the territory of our country and rendering assistance in psychological integration