National consultation on global migration pact held

Robert Natiello, International Organisation for Migration’s Regional Coordination Officer for the Caribbean

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Inter-national Organization for Migration (IOM) yesterday hosted a national consultative meeting on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

The meeting, which was hosted at the Pegasus Hotel, will inform a wider, global consultation, which will be held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The intergovernmental negotiations will begin this month and end in July.

Robert Natiello of the IOM, told the meeting that the Global Compact should be agreed upon by the end of this year.

The idea for a Global Compact to