During the upcoming visit of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to Uzbekistan, a Migration agreement with the Central Asian state A corresponding report in the newspapers of the Funke Media Group was confirmed to the dpa by government circles. Scholz will visit Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, two of the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, for the first time starting Sunday.
Migration agreements, as currently negotiated with several states, are considered key to Immigration to Germany and the Repatriation of rejected asylum seekers According to a response from the Federal Government to a corresponding parliamentary inquiry in June, the special representative appointed for this purpose, Joachim Stamp, had been holding talks with representatives of various foreign governments since last year.
These included Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kenya, Colombia, Ghana and the Philippines. Similar agreements or partnerships already exist with India, Georgia and Morocco.
A corresponding agreement with Kenya is to be signed on FridayKenyan President William Ruto is then expected to visit Berlin. On the German side, the signatures will not be made by Scholz, but by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) and Stamp. (dpa)
