Tunisia hosted a high-level informal dialogue on the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, which brought together representatives of 18 countries, according to a statement issued Friday by The International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Following various regional consultations and a national consultation held in Tunis last May, the Tunis informal dialogue organised in partnership with the International Organisation for Migration, brought together 45 representatives of governments, international organisations and civil society…
On this occasion, Secretary of State for Immigration and Tunisians Expatriates Adel Jarboui emphasised the imperative to strengthen the mechanisms of management and governance of migration as well as the mechanisms for measurement and monitoring for guarantee the effectiveness of the Pact, indicating that Tunisia currently has 1 million 200,000 Tunisians living in other countries and 60,000 foreigners living on Tunisian soil.
The Chargé d’Affaires of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in Tunis, Katariina Leinonena underlined the EU’s very firm commitment to the Global Compact for Migration, which would make it possible to share very diverse perspectives on one of the key issues facing the international community.
“In an increasingly complex migratory context, the world today has about 258 million international migrants including 65 million forced to move because of conflict,” she said, noting that the global pact for Migration will be the first comprehensive agreement on states’ approaches to human mobility through a set of common principles and concrete measures that will cover all aspects related to migration.
“This increase in numbers is not surprising, in a world that is increasingly populated, in a world where communications are easier, where information travels faster but also where inequalities are widening,” said Diego Zorilla, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations System in Tunisia.
He added: “We need meetings like this, where politicians and administrators interact with researchers to successfully elevate the debate around migration and move beyond the sadly pamphlets that dominate the debate in many of our societies. Migrations should respond to personal choices and be an expression of individual freedoms. ”
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, to be adopted at an international conference in Morocco on 10-11 December 2018, offers the international community the opportunity to consider a common future in which migration are safe, orderly and regular, and to define the steps to be taken to give substance to this vision.
TunisianMonitorOnline (TAP)
