Stakeholders reiterate Africa’s position on international migration
Ahead of the final round of negotiations for the Global Compact on Migration (GCM) on 13 July 2018, representatives of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), African Union Commission (AUC), and the International Office for Migration (IOM) have expressed a strong desire to see Africa’s concerns reflected properly in the outcome document. “We must ensure that Africa’s narrative and priorities are adequately reflected in the Global Compact based on evidence that contrary to the ‘other narrative,’ intra-African migration dominates African migrant flows,” said ECA Deputy Executive Secretary, Giovannie Biha. The meeting took place in Addis Ababa on 22 June and was aimed at providing a platform for the GCM co-facilitators to update African stakeholders on the ongoing GCM intergovernmental negotiations, and listen to other perspectives and realities on migration in Africa, which could serve as inputs to the Compact. Commenting on related developments on the continent, ECA Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, said “The concreteness of the discussion we are having here today is already being taken forward in Africa with the signing of the AfCFTA and the Free Movement Protocol.” Ms. Songwe noted that “there is real action on the continent,” adding “We hope by the time we get to Marrakesh more (than the current 26) African countries would have signed the Free Movement Protocol, and that we will have clarity on how to integrate the African perspective into the overall implementation of the Global Compact.”
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2018-06
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/45799 |
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