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By Jamila Babayeva

Georgia will make one more step towards visa-free travel in the Schengen space with the help of an EU-funded project that will allow boosting the capacities of the Georgian authorities in the area of integrated border management and migration, the EU Delegation to Georgia reported.

The new project Reinforcing the Capacities of the Government of Georgia in Border and Migration Management will be implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

During the project, IOM will implement a complex and integrated set of tailored capacity building activities to help the Georgian authorities in enhancing border and migration management policies and institutional approaches in line with EU standards. The activities will concern the following four main areas: integrated border management, combating irregular migration, reintegration assistance to returned migrants, and migration data management system development.

The objective of the project is to enhance the capacities of the Georgian authorities in the area of integrated border management and migration in line with relevant EU-Georgia agreements and action plans, in particular the Visa Liberalization Action Plan.

The project is funded by the European Union's Eastern Partnership Integration and Cooperation Programme for 2012 and will be implemented over a period of 42 months.