achievements and future efforts. The meeting concluded to: complete preparations for the touristic season on both sides of the border; improve the efficiency and increase the number of joint border patrols; facilitate monthly meetings of shift leaders at border crossings; and to revise the draft Agreement on the Joint Information Exchange Centre at the joint border crossing of Sukobin – Muricani between southern Montenegro and northern Albania. On 6 June, the Mission, in co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, facilitated a working meeting between delegations of the Montenegrin and Albanian border police services in Podgorica. The meeting focused on the draft Agreement on the Joint Information Exchange Centre at the joint border crossing point Sukobin–Muricani between southern Montenegro and northern Albania. Legal experts from both delegations reviewed the draft articles and prepared the final version, which was to be presented to the respective Ministers of Interior of both countries for final revision and signature. On 6 July, the Mission, in co-operation with the MoI, facilitated the annual regional meeting between delegations of Montenegro’s and Serbia’s border police services, in Pljevlja. The aim was to assess the joint police and customs control measures to be implemented during the tourist season, as well as to evaluate the implementation of the Protocol on Joint Patrols between the two countries in the first half of the year. Police officers from both delegations presented results of the joint patrols and identified challenges for the forthcoming period. On 5 and 13 November, the Mission organized separate regional meetings between the border police services from BiH and Montenegro in Trebinje, BiH, as well as the border police services of Albania and Montenegro in Shkoder, Albania. The latter was organized in cooperation with the OSCE Presence in Albania. Discussions at the meeting in Trebinje were based upon the Agreement on Cross-Border Co-operation and the Protocol on Joint Patrols between the two countries. The two border police services agreed that an assessment should be made of alternative road crossings along the Montenegrin and BiH border. Discussions at the meeting in Shkoder led to an agreement for operational meetings to improve effectiveness and efficiency of joint patrols and to develop measures for suppressing irregular migration. On 17 December, the Mission, in co-operation with the Police Directorate, organized a meeting between delegations of the border police services of BiH and Montenegro. The meeting, held in Pluzine, Montenegro, focused on the implementation of existing border agreements between BiH and Montenegro; improving bilateral co-operation; the possible establishment of joint border crossing points; patrols and incident investigations; and strengthening cross border communication in emergency situations. Attention was also given to making the passage of people and goods more efficient during the summer season; cooperation on irregular migrants and returnees – specifically proper identification and handling –, and other border management issues. In December, the Mission supported the development of an Annex to the document Limitations of Secondary Road Directions which Trespass over the Mutual State Border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro Suitable for Illegal Crossing of Motor Vehicles, which proposes the opening of border crossing points for border traffic. The report provides information on additional spots along the border suitable for opening border check points. Moreover, the Mission supported the printing and distribution of 2,500 copies of guidance for police officers to conduct interviews with assumed irregular migrants and 5,000 copies of a map of Montenegro with listed border crossings and an environmental protection message in the Albanian, English and Montenegrin languages for tourists coming to Montenegro. The documents were distributed to border police officers at the border crossings. 79