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Recommendation 1926 (2010) Final version
Voluntary return programmes: an effective, humane and cost-effective mechanism for returning irregular migrants
1. The Parliamentary Assembly refers
to its Resolution 1742
(2010) on voluntary return programmes: an effective,
humane and cost-effective mechanism for returning irregular migrants,
and commends the Committee of Ministers for encouraging member states
to promote voluntary returns over forced returns in its 20 Guidelines
on Forced Returns, adopted in May 2005.
2. The Assembly urges the Committee of Ministers to promote further
the use of voluntary return programmes and carry out, with the assistance
of one of its intergovernmental committees (such as the European
Committee on Migration (CDMG)), further research and monitoring
on assisted voluntary return programmes run by member states of
the Council of Europe.
3. The Assembly also recommends that the Committee of Ministers
invite one of its intergovernmental committees (such as the CDMG)
to prepare guidelines on assisted voluntary returns, in co-operation
with the International Organization for Migration, in order to promote
further the use of this return mechanism in member states of the
Council of Europe. These guidelines could usefully complement the
20 Guidelines on Forced Returns of the Committee of Ministers.