ICAO PUSHES MEMBER STATES TO BOOST PASSPORT IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
September 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SECRETARY General of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has marked the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks by calling on member states to improve passport issuing controls.
Raymond Benjamin told a, ICAO symposium on ICAO machine readable travel documents, biometrics and security standards that great progress had been made during the past decade in improving passport standards: "Practically all states now issue machine readable passports and more than 100 issue [electronic] e-passports."
However, he ...
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