Thread: UN members adopt immigration pact rejected by US, official says

UN members adopt immigration pact rejected by US, official says

BY MEGAN KELLER - 12/10/18 09:04 AM EST 50

A majority of United Nations states voted to adopt a nonbinding global immigration pact on Monday, Morocco's foreign minister said.

Nearly 30 fewer governments joined the pact than had worked on crafting it, according to the minister, Nasser Bourita, Reuters reports.

There was no formal vote on the matter.

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was signed by every U.N. member except for the U.S. in July.

The agreement has come under fire by advocates of stricter immigration policy and national sovereignty.
The Trump administration said that the global approach to immigration does not work in the best interest of the United States.

At least six European Union members, most of which were at one point in the Soviet Union, have spurned the pact, according to Reuters.

On Sunday Chile also pulled out from the agreement, as Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel saw the biggest party in his coalition resign over the accord.

Austria, the government that holds the U.N. presidency, withdrew in November as well.

The Austrian delegates said the pact would blur the line between legal and illegal immigration, compromising its own immigration policies and endangering national security.

https://thehill.com/policy/internati...-official-says

DECEMBER 9, 2018 / 3:38 PM / UPDATED 18 HOURS AGO

More than 150 governments to adopt U.N. migration pact in Morocco

Ulf Laessing, Andreas Rinke

MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - More than 150 countries will join a United Nations conference to adopt a global pact to better handle migrant flows, a senior U.N. official said on Sunday, less than the number that initially worked on the plan.

In July, all 193 U.N. members except the United States finalized the so-called Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration to better handle migration.

Since then, the text has come under fire from European politicians who say it could increase immigration. At least six European Union members - mostly in formerly Communist Eastern Europe - have shunned the accord

U.N. Special Representative for International Migration Louise Arbour said more than 150 governments had registered for the event in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh set to adopt the accord on Monday, without giving details.

The pact is not legally binding but can provide very useful guidance for countries facing migration, she told a news conference.

“Many challenges will stand in the way of its implementation, not least the toxic and ill-informed narrative that too often persists when it comes to migrants,” she said.

In the latest political turmoil over the pact, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel relaunched his government on Sunday as a minority administration after the biggest party in his coalition quit in a dispute over signing the compact.

The right-wing N-VA pulled its ministers after Michel refused its demand that he not agree to the pact.

Also on Sunday, Chile’s Interior Ministry Subsecretary Rodrigo Ubilla told El Mercurio newspaper that the country’s representatives would not attend the event, saying: “We have said that migration is not a human right. Countries have a right to determine the entry requirements for foreign citizens.”

In November, Austria’s right-wing government, which holds the EU presidency, said it would also withdraw, saying the accord would blur the line between legal and illegal migration.

Australia also said in November would not sign up to the migration agreement because it would compromise its hardline immigration policy and endanger national security. nL4N1XV663

Among other leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose 13-year chancellorship has been marked by her open-door migrant policy, will attend the event.

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is a framework for cooperation and aims to reduce illegal migration, help integrate migrants and return them to their home countries.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-e...-idUSKBN1O80TN

Can anyone find us the yea and nea votes? Which countries voted No?

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

A majority of United Nations states voted to adopt a nonbinding global immigration pact on Monday, Morocco's foreign minister said.

There was no formal vote on the matter.

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Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders

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I think they backed off the formal vote idea seeing so many nations joining the NO LIST and then had this spokeshole from Morrocco come out and put a positive spin on it saying 150 nations voted YES. But if there was no formal vote... that number is an estimate and very suspect / fluid.

A total of 164 countries among the 193 U.N. members approved the agreement by acclamation Monday.

At the two-day conference, U.N. leaders were hoping to lure in holdouts from mostly Western nations who were not signing: Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia along with the United States, which under President Donald Trump did not participate in drafting the accord.

Louise Arbour of Canada, a former U.N. human rights chief, said the issue also has been tied up in parliamentary debates in Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Italy, Israel, Slovenia and Switzerland — although some of them did participate in creating the accord, which has since been ensnared by tough political headwinds.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/nearly...on-deal-not-us