The 21st Arab Conference of Heads of Immigration and Passports Agencies called on member states to intensify training courses to enhance the skills of border personnel in passport verification and improve their abilities and efficiency in detecting forged documents.At its conclusion Wednesday in the Tunisian capital, the conference adopted a guiding plan to combat illegal migration and requested the General Secretariat to distribute it to member states for their benefit.The attendees requested Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS) to continue developing programs in this field in coordination with regional and international organizations.They called on member states to impose stricter penalties for forging travel and identity documents to curb the phenomenon and prevent using forged documents in various types of crime.Moreover, the conference called on the General Secretariat to explore the possibility of establishing an Arab database that includes methods and techniques of document forger y, which takes into account the views of member states, and to present the topic at the next conference.The participants urged the General Secretariat to coordinate with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to hold an international conference on human trafficking and illegal migration.They called for coordination with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to dedicate one of their joint activities within the framework of Euro-Arab cooperation on border security to the topic of human-trafficking routes and migrant smuggling.Additionally, the conference requested NAUSS, represented by the Arab Center for Technical Cooperation in Migration and Border Management, to prepare a comparative study between human trafficking and migrant smuggling crimes, and to present it at the next conference.The conference was held under the auspices of the General Secretariat of the Arab Interior Ministers Council (AIMC) in Tunis. It saw the attendance of representatives from Arab Interior Mini stries, as well as the UNODC, Frontex, NAUSS, and the AIMC General Secretariat.Source: Saudi Press Agency