E/CN.4/2004/76/Add.2 page 3 The Special Rapporteur warns of a risk of contradiction between the migration control programmes and policies under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Interior, and the assistance, education and integration programmes and policies under the responsibility of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. While it would appear appropriate that integration programmes should be implemented at the local level, the Special Rapporteur notes that the Autonomous Communities and the local governments, especially in the large cities and the Canaries, Ceuta and Melilla, have to devote most of their resources to assistance to illegal migrants. In addition, their efforts to achieve integration are frustrated by the obstacles which their situation of illegality places in the way of the full integration of migrants. She also noted the limited extent of coordination in migration matters between the three levels of government – central, Autonomous Community and local. The Special Rapporteur considers that frontier control per se does not ensure the orderly and dignified management of migration. In the context of the European Union, the question of migration should be the subject of an ongoing dialogue with the countries of origin. The focus on safe, orderly and dignified migration should be reflected in a dialogue with the countries of origin which goes beyond employment matters. The Special Rapporteur considers that, in the case of Morocco, it is essential that the dialogue between the two Governments should be a dialogue of equals, sister countries, neighbouring and sovereign, with common interests. The focus of this dialogue should be on the prevention of illegal migration and co-development in the countries of origin; greater international cooperation efforts are needed to dismantle the criminal networks engaged in the trafficking and smuggling of migrants.

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