On 12 April 2017 III session of Scientific and Methodological Association on Migration and Demographic Processes was held in Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation. The event was attended by a number of representatives of the Russian scientific and educational institutions, as well as by the member of Global Migration Policy Association (Geneva, Switzerland), and by IOM Moscow representative.

During the session the following reports were presented:
- Migration management on regional international organizations’ level: problems and outlooks;
- Geopolitical aspects for identifying of military crimes in view of migration risks;
- Social, economical and political aspects for post crisis external migration.

IOM Moscow representative took an active part in the discussion followed and came forward with a number of concrete proposals to be included to the final document that were approved by the assembly.

The event’s hosts (Financial University) highly appraised IOM Moscow’s participation and expressed their deep concern in continuation and further development of cooperation, including conducting joint researches on vast scope of migration related issues.

It is worth noting that IOM Moscow is invited to participate in the next session of Scientific and Methodological Association on Migration and Demographic Processes which is tentatively scheduled for coming June and will be mainly devoted to looking into the most pressing issues of migration management.