Ana Catarina Mendes speaks at the UN on “Portugal’s progress” in the area of migration – Politics
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 – who oversees the area of Migration – will participate in the International Forum for the Analysis of Migration, which takes place between this Tuesday and the fair at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York.
According to an agenda disclosed in the communiqué, a government will intervene on Wednesday, between 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm local time (10:00 am and 1:00 pm in Lisbon), in the political debate of the forum in question, which will be chaired by the director-general of the International Organization of Migrations (IOM), António Vitorino.
On Thursday, Ana Catarina Mendes will address the forum’s general debate, where, according to the cabinet’s statement, she will present “Portugal’s progress in this matter”.
The International Forum on Migration Review constitutes the first to the Global Compact on the Assessment of Safe Migration, adopting in December 2018 the objective of intensifying international intensification for “safe, orderly and regular migration”, a set of guiding principles and a policy framework multilateral.
After signing the agreement in question, the Member States of the United Nations (UN Purpose of Agreement of the Agreement Matter) Agreements in accordance with the Organization, Every Year, A Meeting That Has As Controversy to the Organization. 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 statement, it is also highlighted that Portugal was “one of the first signatories” of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).
“Portugal to work from the Global Plan as migrations, a document that involves 16 services and 28 services and that help, in more than two years of implementation, intensified as policies of integration and connection of migrants to their countries”, reads the note.
Signed in December 2008, at a conference held in Morocco, a ratification of the GCM outlines with the United States of Hungary 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 Pact Secures Global, Orderly and Regular Migration 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” .
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Between the time the pact was signed and today, the number of migrants in the world has increased from around 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.