On 26 February, members of the Joint Technical Coordination Team (JTCT) for Border Security – comprising representatives of the military and security institutions in the East and West responsible for border security, counterterrorism and addressing irregular migration – participated in a two-day coordination meeting, facilitated by UNSMIL in Tunis. They agreed to form a specialized study centre tasked with conducting specialized studies on border security areas in order to provide practical solutions which can be applied on the ground. The next step would be to physically establish the border security joint centres and to start equipping them, to enable coordination, communication and information exchange on border security. The JTCT decided to reconvene in April in southern Libya to discuss the regional coordination mechanism.
