PH Underscores Need for Global Compact on Migration to Examine Barriers to Maximizing the Positive Contributions of Migrants

Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the United Nations in New York, H.E. Teodoro L. Locsin, Jr., underscores the need for the Global Compact on Migration to examine barriers to maximizing the positive contributions of migrants.

07 August 2017 NEW YORK — Speaking at the fourth informal thematic session of the Global Compact on Migration held on July 24 to 25 at the UN Headquarters in New York, Ambassador Locsin stated that the Global Compact on Migration must examine the barriers to maximizing the positive contribution of migrants, lay down actionable commitments, specific targets and put in place a governance and monitoring framework, and address the roles of local authorities. It must also go beyond the perception that migrants contribute to development only through financial remittances and equally look at their “social” remittances.

He said that migrants are not just “partners in development” but the “drivers of progress we have achieved.”

This informal thematic session with the theme, “Contributions of migrants and diasporas to all dimensions of sustainable development, including remittances and portability of earned benefits,” is the fourth of six informal thematic sessions leading to the Global Compact on Migration.

The Philippine delegation is composed of Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Evan Garcia, Minister Maria Angela Ponce, Minister Enrico Fos and Labor Attaché Saul De Vries.

For more information, visit www.newyorkpm.dfa.gov.ph/ www.un.int/philippines. END