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In accordance with the Presidential Edict “On Some Measures of Improvement of the System of Agencies and Interior Authorities of the Republic of Belarus” of 30 December 2003 No. 603, the Department for Migration and regional migration services are being transferred from the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection to the Ministry of Interior.
The new department will deal with migration, citizenship and refugee issues. A Decree adopting Regulations on the Department for Citizenship and Migration, thus formalising its existence and authority, was signed by the President on 4 June 2004. | 
