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"The Council attaches great importance to immigration issues being integrated into the Union’s relations with third countries.
In a meeting of 2 November 2002, the General Affairs and External Relations Council adopted precise conclusions on this issue and identified nine countries with which the Union will step up dialogue regarding immigration.
The issues relating to immigration have been discussed in all kinds of negotiations between the Community and third countries, and each cooperation and association agreement and any other type of agreement concluded recently or still in the process of negotiation include clauses relating to immigration.
As regards readmission, the Council stressed its importance in the meeting of 6 November and supported a swift conclusion of the agreements currently being negotiated.
On 13 October and 25 November 2003, the Council adopted decisions on signing readmission agreements between the European Community and Macao and Sri Lanka respectively. The readmission agreement with Macao was signed on 13 October and the agreement with Sri Lanka should be signed shortly. Furthermore, the Council should soon adopt a decision on the conclusion of the readmission agreement between the European Community and Hong Kong. It must also be noted that the Commission has concluded negotiations for a readmission agreement with Albania, which will be signed on 18 December 2003.
As regards the other third countries with which the Commission has received a mandate from the Council to negotiate readmission agreements – Algeria, China, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine – negotiations are still in progress.
Finally, the Council refers the honourable Member to the Brussels European Council Conclusions of 12 December 2003, in which it reaffirms the importance of the dialogue with third countries of origin and transit of migratory flows and underlines the importance of continuing to assist those countries in their efforts to stem these migratory flows."@en1
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