Rabat - Special Representative for International Migration, Louise Arbour has praised Morocco’s solid commitment to make successful the first international document on managing migration, the Global Pact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
Rabat – Special Representative for International Migration, Louise Arbour has praised Morocco’s solid commitment to make successful the first international document on managing migration, the Global Pact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
Arbour made her remarks at UN conference held on Friday in New York.
After 18 months of negotiations between world governments, the UN General Assembly completed the text of the GCM for its formal adoption taking place on December 10-11 in Marrakech.
During the conference held in the presence of the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres and several representatives of UN member states, Arbour who was in charge of creating the agreement process, praised the kingdom for making the conference “ a great success.”
Arbour pointed to Morocco’s full commitment toward organizing the international event.
According to International Organization for Migration (IOM), GCM seeks to address humanitarian, human rights-related and developmental aspects of international migration.
It also aims to protect the safety and dignity for all migrants, regardless of their documents’ status. It will expand access to resettlement in developing countries and other complementary pathways and foster conditions that enable refugees voluntarily to return to their home countries.
Furthermore, the compact vows to ease pressures on countries that welcome and host refugees, build self-reliance of refugees.
Ahead of the intergovernmental conference, the 11th summit of the world forum on migration will be held on December 5-7 in Marrakech.
