The United Nations agreed on Friday on wide-ranging ways to cope with the millions of migrants moving from country to country, overcoming “mistrust” and “difficult” issues to draw up the first-ever migration pact, officials said.
The agreement, approved by all 193 member nations except the United States, which pulled out last year, aims to make migration safe and orderly amid issues of national sovereignty and international cooperation, U.N. officials said.
The move came after the migration crisis in Europe in 2015, which saw the biggest influx of refugees and migrants since World War II, officials said. The crisis strained resources and triggered fear of foreigners and nationalist tensions.
Some 250 million people around the world are migrants, according to U.N. data, or 3.4 percent of the global population.
“Migration is a fact. It has been here for centuries. It is here to stay for centuries more,” Miroslav Lajcak, president of the U.N. General Assembly, told a media briefing.
He described the deal as "the first comprehensive framework on migration the world has ever seen." It draws on 18 months of negotiations on how to draw out the benefits of migration and mitigate the risks.
The official Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration addresses why people migrate, how to protect them, how to integrate them into new countries, means of returning them home and other issues.
Ambassador Jurg Lauber of Switzerland, who helped run the pact negotiations, called it a “catalog of measures” rather than a “one-size-fits-all” set of rules.
“The strength, the force of the document is its practical value,” he told ahead of Friday’s agreement.Formal adoption is set for December in Morocco.
It was agreed by 192 member nations after the United States quit the negotiations saying it was not compatible with U.S. sovereignty.
The anti-immigration current in the US, which Donald Trump represents and fuels, intends to carry out a racial purge in the US, in the beginning of the third decade of the 21st Century.
Hundred years ago, European fascists, under the guidance of Adolf Hitler in Germany, and Benito Mussolini in Italy, displayed the most horrific and gruesome aspects of racism.
They staged an ethnic cleansing against non-Aryans, including Semites, gypsies, Muslims, and a number of other European ethnicities, in order to create the so-called pure European race.
Currently, a century after the horrendous racist measures in Europe, the American racists are intent on creating the so-called pure Americans.
In the US, which Trump leads; Muslims are refused entry to US soil: Mexicans are referred to as criminals; children are separated from their parents; and millions of people migrate overseas; while plans are also underway to build a tall and impenetrable wall around the US.
In the meanwhile, the contradiction of such a plan with the ethical, humane, and legal principles was evident to an extent that led to a flurry of global condemnations of Trump administration's immigration policies.
