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UAE shares border control success story at Frontex meeting
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General Obaid Muhair bin Suroor, Deputy Director General of the General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai (GDRFA- Dubai), affirmed that the UAE has made substantial progress and excellence in terms of border control management. He pointed out that these achievements have made the UAE a model for the best practices in the border control industry. He made these remarks during a presentation at the 22nd edition of the International Borders Security Conference, organized by Frontex, the European agency for operational cooperation at the External Borders of the member-states in the European Union (EU), where the GDRFA-Dubai represented the UAE.
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Participants at the conference, hosted by the Polish capital, Warsaw, discussed the future of maritime, land and air borders in terms of security and facilities offered to the travellers.
tex meeting allowed us to be in close proximity to the international decision-making hubs related to the borders control and security industry. It also allowed us to gain insights into the developments in the industry; recognize the new Senior officers from the EU systems and programmes implemember-states participated in mented by the participating states the meeting, as well as Australia in order to face the challenges that and Hong Kong. The UAE was the world is currently facing.” the only Middle East country at the meeting which was held from He added: “Inviting the UAE to October 21 to 24. participate in this important international meeting reflects the The goal of the meeting, where international acknowledgment of the first annual report of the Fron- the UAE’s achievements in the tex was revealed, was to discuss border industry, especially the seacceleration of traveling proce- curity control and in accelerating dures, upgrading of the services and simplifying the traveling proprovided to travellers, strength- cedures.” ening security and analyzing the risks and threats to border control. During the discussions, he preMajor General Obaid said: “The sented the UAE experience in UAE's participation in the Fron- accelerating and simplifying the