| 17 September 2008 A draft law № 3158 “On fundamentals of the state migration policy” was registered in Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 17 September. The document provides an essential enlargement of rights of legal migrants in Ukraine and is a reply to the recent Council of Europe Ministerial Conference on migration. It suggests that legal migrants should be provided with freedom of movement, place of residence, as well as the right to leave Ukraine freely. Mr. Ivan Popesku emphasized that the draft law is based upon the main decisions of the 8th Migration Council of Europe conference. On the other hand, the draft law envisages regulation of illegal migration.
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