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In a telegram issued on Tuesday (8), 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 government Michel Temer.
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. 39, International Organization for Migration. , in addition to any other interlocutor deemed relevant, Brazil is dissociating itself from the Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. "
The document also states that Brazil should not" participate in any activity related to the pact or its implementation ".
Wanted, Itamaraty has not confirmed the information before the publication of this report Diplomats, however, 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 the Minister of Foreign Affairs , Ernesto Araújo, had already announced on Twitter that the country would leave the pact. "Araújo called it" insufficient instrument to deal with the (migratory) problem, "arguing that" immigration should not not be treated as a global issue, but rather according to the reality and sovereignty of each country. "
Human Rights for Migrants
Negotiated since 2017, the Covenant established direct lines 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 modified 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 Foreign Minister, Aloysio Nunes Ferreira, who represented Brazil in the negotiations, had already criticized the idea of abandoning the pact.
"The (migratory) issue is rather a global problem: all regions of the world are affected by migratory flows, now a transmitter pole, now a transit point, now a destination, hence the need for global responses" he wrote on Twitter.
Aloysio also stated that the covenant did not allow "immigration without discrimination" and "only served as a reference for the management of migratory flows, without the slightest interference in the sovereign definition of each country's migration policy ".
Conservative movements favorable to Bolsonaro's candidacy criticized the agreement.
In Brussels, a demonstration against the pact organized by right-wing groups gathered around 5,000 people and ended with clashes between protesters and security forces in December.
Brazilian Migrants Abroad
Camila Asano, coordinator of the foreign policy of the NGO 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, noting 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 ignores the "many Brazilians who live in other countries and suffer from the denial of their fundamental rights".
She states that the pact expresses a "very minimal, but nevertheless very valuable, consensus on what would be good practices for receiving 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 that gives Brazil a strong voice in international discussions on the subject", lamented the president.
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