United Nations bid to enshrine migrants’ human r
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Posted On: 12/06/2018 2:29:03 AM
United Nations bid to enshrine migrants’ human rights CRUMBLES as now Bulgaria quits,
BULGARIA has become the latest country to reject a United Nations accord on regulating the treatment of migrants worldwide and will snub the event marking its formal adoption in Morocco next week.
The EU member state said it would also abstain in a subsequent vote on a resolution in the UN General Assembly to endorse the already adopted pact in a move that highlights Europe’s hardening stance on immigration.
At least five other EU countries, including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, have already shunned the accord - a sign of how the bloc has turned increasingly restrictive on accepting refugees and migrants alike since a 2015 spike in arrivals.
Bulgaria lies on one of the main migratory routes from the Middle East to western Europe and said it was already taking steps to stop illegal migration and protect the EU's externalA spokesman said: “At this stage, the Bulgarian government believes that the decision not to join the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, protects to the fullest extent the interests of the country and its citizens.”
The pact, which addresses issues such as how to protect people who migrate, how to integrate them into new countries and how to return them to their home countries, was approved in July by all 193 member nations except the US, which backed out last year.
It followed the biggest influx of migrants into Europe since World War 2, many fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.
But the issue has led to a government crisis in Belgium, Austria has said it will not sign up and opposition from Italy's prominent interior minister, the right-wing Matteo Salvini, has also thrown Rome's support into doubt.
Workers add barbed wire to a fence along Bulgaria's border with Turkey.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1054704/...-migration
BULGARIA has become the latest country to reject a United Nations accord on regulating the treatment of migrants worldwide and will snub the event marking its formal adoption in Morocco next week.
The EU member state said it would also abstain in a subsequent vote on a resolution in the UN General Assembly to endorse the already adopted pact in a move that highlights Europe’s hardening stance on immigration.
At least five other EU countries, including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, have already shunned the accord - a sign of how the bloc has turned increasingly restrictive on accepting refugees and migrants alike since a 2015 spike in arrivals.
Bulgaria lies on one of the main migratory routes from the Middle East to western Europe and said it was already taking steps to stop illegal migration and protect the EU's externalA spokesman said: “At this stage, the Bulgarian government believes that the decision not to join the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, protects to the fullest extent the interests of the country and its citizens.”
The pact, which addresses issues such as how to protect people who migrate, how to integrate them into new countries and how to return them to their home countries, was approved in July by all 193 member nations except the US, which backed out last year.
It followed the biggest influx of migrants into Europe since World War 2, many fleeing conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.
But the issue has led to a government crisis in Belgium, Austria has said it will not sign up and opposition from Italy's prominent interior minister, the right-wing Matteo Salvini, has also thrown Rome's support into doubt.
Workers add barbed wire to a fence along Bulgaria's border with Turkey.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1054704/...-migration
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