He's considered to be a professional officer, knowledgeable in migration issues.

He needs to come away from the meeting with some sort of American commitment to binational partnership, especially on the migration issue.

He is a well-known researcher and commentator on migration issues.

The urgency of the migration issue demands an overall view.

To this end, we have gone ahead with the process of fully integrating migration issues into the Union's external relations.

The Commission is determined to make progress in the development of a horizontal approach to migration issues.

The integration of migration issues into country strategy papers, for example, is something that the Commission has already implemented.

We are also supporting a meeting in the Netherlands on a whole range of migration issues.

Another way would be to ensure that we can arrive at some concrete decisions on certain key migration issues.

The death of a key official in early 2008 slowed international cooperation on migration issues.