Ana Catarina Mendes speaks at the UN on “Portugal’s progress” in the area of migration – Observer
The Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Ana Catarina Mendes, will speak on Wednesday and Thursday at the International Forum for the Analysis of Migration, organized by the United Nations, where she will address “Portugal’s progress” in the area of migration.
In a statement released by Ana Catarina Mendes’ office, it is mentioned that the minister — which is in the area of Migration — will participate in the International Forum for the Analysis of Migration, which takes place between this Tuesday and Friday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
According to an agenda disclosed in the communiqué, it will decide to intervene on Wednesday, between 3 pm and 6 pm local time (8 pm and 11 pm in Lisbon), in the political debate of the forum in question, which will be chaired by the director general of the International Organization for Migration ( IOM), António Vitorino.
On Thursday, Ana Catarina Mendes will address the forum’s general debate, where, according to the cabinet’s statement, will present “Portugal’s progress in this matter”.
The International Migration Forum is the first to the Global Compact for the Assessment of Safe Migration, covering in December 2018 the objective of intensifying international cooperation for “safe, orderly and regular migration”, a set of guiding principles and a multilateral policy framework.
After the signature of the agreement in question, the Member States of the United Nations (UN) work to organize, each year, a which aims to fulfill the progress related to the implementation of the issue. The International Migration Review Forum 2022 will be the first meeting of its kind.
According to Ana Catarina Mendes’ office, the “will serve to debate and share the progress of each member state and prepare an ‘Intergovernmental Progress Declaration’”.
In the communiqué, it is also highlighted that Portugal was “one of the first signatories” of the Global Compact for Safe MigrationOrdered and Regular (GCM).
Portugal has been working since 2019 on the migration of two countries to the National Implementation Plan as 16 ministries and implementing organizations, in more than 28 services and implementation people, in more than 28 projects of integration and connection of people to their countries”, reads up on the note.
Signed in December 2008, at a conference held in Morocco, a ratification of the GCM outlines with the United States of Hungary, with 152 countries, members of the UN, target of the five-year opposition, Poland, Israel, Israel, Czech Republic — and also the abstention from 12 other countries.
The Compact Secures Migration, Global and Regular began to be called for negotiation in September 2016, when the 193 member states of the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the New York Declaration for Migrants and Migrants.
The response to the mass declaration of refugees and other global appeals is the response to the mass declaration of refugees and other global appeals: Migration and refugees.
Between the time the pact was signed and the present day, the number of migrants in the world has passed from about 258 million people (3.4% of the world population) to 281 million (3.6% of the total population).
According to the director-general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, the assessment of the pact has been a success, but also many challenges that have been compounded, in the meantime, by two years of a serious pandemic.