Economic Reporter :
The UN General Assembly will host a high-level summit on September 19, aiming to address large movements of refugees and migrants with the aim of bringing countries together under a more humane and coordinated approach.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lead the Bangladesh delegation at the high-level meeting to be held at the UN headquarters in New York, a senior official told The New Nation.
Foreign Ministry officials are working to finalise Prime Minister’s engagements at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and other important meetings on its sidelines.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to leave Dhaka on September 14 to visit Canada with a stopover in the UK and finally the USA to attend the UNGA.
The UN General Assembly’s regular session begins each year on a Tuesday, in the third week of September, counting from the first week that contains at least one working day.
A senior Foreign Ministry official said the issue of large movements of refugees and migrants is too huge for any single country to handle on its own. “The international community must work together to find durable solutions,” he said adding that the high-level summit will be an extremely important event considering the current global scenario. It is the first time that the UN has called for a summit on this issue at the level of heads of state and government.
The summit is expected to adopt a negotiated outcome document by the UN member states and its two annexes – a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration; and a comprehensive refugee response framework, the ministry officials said.
Apart from that the United States, along with Germany, Ethiopia, Sweden, Canada and Jordan will co-host a Leaders’ Summit on refugees in New York on September 20.
These summits intend to develop a global approach in dealing with mass population flows that is more comprehensive, predictable, systematic, orderly and equitable, officials said.
Bangladesh has its own experience of dealing with international labour migration as well as with forced displacement. Bangladesh, as estimated by the government of Bangladesh and until finalising the census report in November this year, hosts a protracted ‘humanitarian population’ of about 33,000 Myanmar refugees and another 300,000 undocumented Myanmar nationals. Though reliable figures are not available on migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, many, including Bangladesh, have attempted to use that route and also the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, according to a government document that also mentioned that some have tragically perished in these perilous trips as well.
Describing a global scenario, an official said the world is today witnessing an unprecedented movement of people across national boundaries, seeking opportunities as well as due to poverty, security and climate change.
There are about 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world, including over 21 million refugees, 3 million asylum-seekers and over 40 million internally displaced persons, according to another official document.
Meanwhile, the key stakeholders on the migration issues will sit together here on Saturday to discuss the UN summit and how the large movement of refugees and migrants are addressed.
The UN General Assembly will host a high-level summit on September 19, aiming to address large movements of refugees and migrants with the aim of bringing countries together under a more humane and coordinated approach.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lead the Bangladesh delegation at the high-level meeting to be held at the UN headquarters in New York, a senior official told The New Nation.
Foreign Ministry officials are working to finalise Prime Minister’s engagements at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and other important meetings on its sidelines.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to leave Dhaka on September 14 to visit Canada with a stopover in the UK and finally the USA to attend the UNGA.
The UN General Assembly’s regular session begins each year on a Tuesday, in the third week of September, counting from the first week that contains at least one working day.
A senior Foreign Ministry official said the issue of large movements of refugees and migrants is too huge for any single country to handle on its own. “The international community must work together to find durable solutions,” he said adding that the high-level summit will be an extremely important event considering the current global scenario. It is the first time that the UN has called for a summit on this issue at the level of heads of state and government.
The summit is expected to adopt a negotiated outcome document by the UN member states and its two annexes – a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration; and a comprehensive refugee response framework, the ministry officials said.
Apart from that the United States, along with Germany, Ethiopia, Sweden, Canada and Jordan will co-host a Leaders’ Summit on refugees in New York on September 20.
These summits intend to develop a global approach in dealing with mass population flows that is more comprehensive, predictable, systematic, orderly and equitable, officials said.
Bangladesh has its own experience of dealing with international labour migration as well as with forced displacement. Bangladesh, as estimated by the government of Bangladesh and until finalising the census report in November this year, hosts a protracted ‘humanitarian population’ of about 33,000 Myanmar refugees and another 300,000 undocumented Myanmar nationals. Though reliable figures are not available on migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, many, including Bangladesh, have attempted to use that route and also the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, according to a government document that also mentioned that some have tragically perished in these perilous trips as well.
Describing a global scenario, an official said the world is today witnessing an unprecedented movement of people across national boundaries, seeking opportunities as well as due to poverty, security and climate change.
There are about 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world, including over 21 million refugees, 3 million asylum-seekers and over 40 million internally displaced persons, according to another official document.
Meanwhile, the key stakeholders on the migration issues will sit together here on Saturday to discuss the UN summit and how the large movement of refugees and migrants are addressed.
