UN Migration pact: Austria out, Poland and Czech
Republic to follow? by Ann Corcoran 11/3/18.
That
UN Global Compact for Migration could crumble as more countries signal they
won’t sign the document in Morocco in December.
We told you about it here recently. President Trump
took us out at the very beginning and then Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor
Orban also said no way.
Sounds
warm and fuzzy, so what is the problem? Those who have studied the draft
say it would make migration a human right. In other words everyone would
have a right to move wherever they wish. There would be no more legal
migration process.
From
the liberal Irish Times (so they don’t clearly mention the real
crux of the problem): Poles and Czechs follow Austria and Hungary in rejecting
UN migration pact
Anti-immigration leaders in central Europe follow
US lead in opposing global framework.
Poland and the Czech Republic are set to join
Hungary and Austria in pulling out of a United Nations pact on migration, as
populist central European governments attack the deal before it is even signed.
Arbour: But we just want to control
migration chaos via the United Nations! The Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was
agreed in July by all UN members except the United States, and sets out norms
for protecting and integrating people who migrate and ways to help them return
home.
The
pact is non-binding and recognizes each state’s right to its own migration
policy, but a growing number of anti-immigration leaders in central Europe are
now rejecting it ahead of next month’s signing ceremony in Morocco.
“It is very likely that, like Austria, the Czech Republic and the
United States, we will not be part of the UN global compact,”
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday.
“We
believe that here our regulations, our sovereign rules on border protection and
migration control are our absolute priority.”
A day earlier, Czech prime minister Andrej Babis declared that he also
opposed the pact.
“It’s
not clearly interpreted and it could be abused. The United States has pulled
out, Hungary too, now Austria, and Poland is debating it as well,” he said.
“I don’t like the fact that it blurs the distinction between legal and
illegal migration. . . I
will propose to partners in the government that we should do the same as
Austria and Hungary,” he added ahead of cabinet talks on the pact next week.
I
would like to know exactly what was left out of Babis’s statement in that
previous quote! More here. See
my ‘Invasion of Europe’ archive by clicking here.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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