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Hungary led by a government openly hostile to migration, said Wednesday that it withdrew from the global pact on migration approved last week in UN The agreement is "dangerous".
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This non-binding document, finalized after 18 months of negotiations, plans to strengthen international cooperation to cope with the global phenomenon of migration.
Washington withdrew at the end of 2017 from the making of the pact, because it contained provisions contrary to the migration policy of Donald Trump .
Read more: Mexico, Central America and the United States The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Szijjarto declared Wednesday in Budapest that the document is "dangerous for the world and for Hungary", because "it will incite millions of people to take the road."
Hungary must go out of the process of approval [del texto] and, in so doing, make it clear that it does not consider in any way that the measures or the package's guidelines are the way forward, he said. : AFP
For his part, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Miroslav Lajčák reacted by emphasizing that the Global Compact on Migration "should not be considered a threat".
[debe] to be considered the first platform for managing the international phenomenon of migration, said Miroslav Lajčák spokesman Brenden Varma
The pact will be officially initialed at an international conference in Morocco in mid-December and Lajčák "He expects the Hungarian government to be present," added Varma
This pact is considered the first international document on migration.
It highlights a series of principles – defense of human rights, rights of the child, recognition of national sovereignty – and includes a catalog of measures to help countries cope with migration: improve information, actions to integrate better migrants, exchange of experiences …
In Hungary, the sovereignist prime minister Viktor Orban who was re-elected in April and has highlighted since 2015 its policy hostile to the reception of migrants outside the European territory, causing criticism from the international community.
