Press Release (96)127 12 September 1996

NACC Seminar on "Economic aspects of the impact of migrations and refugees on State Security" 16-17 September 1996 On 16-17 September, a North Atlantic Co-operation Council (NACC) seminar will take place in Warsaw on the "Economic Aspects of the Impact of Migration and Refugees on State Security". Some sixty participants from the North Atlantic Alliance countries as well as from their Co-operation Partners and international organizations will be present. Under the chairmanship of NATO's Director of Economic Affairs, they will discuss numerous facets of migration, not in a normative way but by examining its positive and negative economic aspects, in particular from a security standpoint. In the course of a series of panels, participants will examine topics like the impact of migration on the demographic situation and the labour market or the relations between migration and economic development. For further information please contact : Mr. Grard MALET, NATO Economics Directorate, phone : (32 2) 707.41.62