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UNHCR supports government counterparts in Montenegro to strengthen asylum, improve reception standards and enhance socio-economic inclusion for forcibly displaced people.
UNHCR is working with authorities to improve statelessness determination procedures, in line with pledges made at the High-Level Segment on Statelessness in 2019.
Since March 2022, Montenegro has been granting temporary protection to Ukrainians and hosts a large refugee community relative to its population.
HIGHLIGHTS
Strengthening asylum procedures UNHCR advocates with national authorities to further strengthen access to asylum procedures, improve decision making process and develop integration prospects to foster self-reliance of refugees.
Statelessness Montenegro is progressing towards fully implementing all four High-Level Segment on Statelessness (HLS) pledges, by further strengthening the statelessness determination procedures (SDP) and implementing fully functional birth registration procedures for persons born in Montenegro.
Ex-Yugoslav refugees With UNHCR’s assistance, refugees from the former Yugoslavia with unresolved legal status decreased from 319 at the end of 2021 to 93 by end of 2022; UNHCR aims to resolve all pending cases in 2023.