In a statement to diplomats, the Bolsonaro government confirms the exit of the United Nations pact on migration Image caption In the center, Chancellor Ernesto Araújo at a meeting in Lima;

In a telegram issued on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry asked Brazilian diplomats to inform the United Nations that Brazil had left the Global Compact for Migration, to which the country had acceded in December at the end of the year. Michel Temer government.

BBC News Brazil had access to the document in which the Ministry requests the Brazilian missions to the United Nations and Geneva to inform, by note, the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Director-General of the United Nations respectively. # 39; International. Migration, in addition to any other interlocutor deemed relevant, that Brazil dissociates from the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. "

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The document also states that Brazil should" participate to any activity related to "the pact or its implementation."

Attempted attempt, Itamaraty did not confirm this information prior to the publication of this report. However, diplomats told BBC News Brazil, on condition of anonymity, that the telegram was circulating in the ministerial system and reaching the addressees.

In recent weeks, President Jair Bolsonaro and Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo had already announced on Twitter that the country would leave the pact. Araujo described it as "insufficient instrument to deal with the (migratory) problem," arguing that "immigration should not be treated as a global issue, but rather according to reality and sovereignty from each country ".

Human Rights for Migrants

Negotiated since 2017, the Pact established guidelines for the reception of immigrants. Among the points defined, there is the notion that countries should provide a coordinated response to migration flows, that human rights guarantees should not be linked to nationalities and that immigration restrictions should be adopted as a last resort.

The document was staggered by about two-thirds of the 193 UN member countries. Some powerful nations – among which the United States, Italy, Australia and Israel, among others – were left out of the badessment that the covenant violated the sovereignty of the country. 39; State. The former Chancellor Aloysio Nunes, who had negotiated the accession of Brazil to the pact and criticized the announcement of the release of the Bolsonaro agreement.

"The (migratory) issue is rather a global issue and all regions of the world are affected."

The former Foreign Minister, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira, who represented Brazil in the negotiations, had already criticized the idea of ​​abandoning the pact. "

Aloysio also claimed that the pact did not allow" indiscriminate migration "and that it did not allow indiscriminate migration," he said. "seeks only to serve as a reference for the control of migratory flows, without the slightest interference in the sovereign definition by each country of its migration policy".

Conservative movements favorable to Bolsonaro's candidacy criticize the agreement.

In Brussels, a demonstration against the pact organized by right-wing groups gathered about 5,000 people and ended with clashes between protesters and security forces in December.

Brazilian Migrants Abroad

According to Camila Asano, NGO Coordinator for Foreign Policy, Conectas, the abandonment of the agreement by Brazil is "extremely regrettable ".

"This shows that the government does not search for all those in need of protection," she said, pointing out that the number of Brazilian migrants living abroad was higher than that of foreigners in the country. Brazil.

According to Asano, in leaving the agreement, the Brazilian government does not consider the "many Brazilians who live in other countries and suffer the denial of their fundamental rights".

According to her, the pact expresses a "very minimal, but still very valuable, consensus on what good practices would be for the reception of flows".

"Brazil is undermining one of its main international badets: to be a country composed of migrants and a migration policy considered as a reference, which gives Brazil a strong voice in international discussions on the subject" , lamented the minister. ] Have you ever watched our new videos on YouTube ? Join our channel!