São Paulo – The members of the United Nations (UN), except for the United States, signed this Friday (13), in New York, an international compact on immigration. The document is a commitment by the states involved to generate more possibilities for regular migration, protect the immigrants and cooperate in the surveillance and cooperate in border management.
This is the first international agreement covering the issue. The final text was approved this Friday, but it will be formally adopted by the countries involved in December, in an international summit set to take place in Marrakech, Morocco.
In a press conference this Thursday (12), UN Secretary General, António Guterres, defined the migrants as the engine for the growth of the world’s economies and said that to mmigrate is not a crime. Migrants account for 3% of the world’s population and of 10% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, he also recalled that over 60,000 people have died since 2000 trying to relocate – via the ocean or other ways.
Translted by Sérgio Kakitani
