Global Forum on Migration and Development

A/RES/62/270View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 116 Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit, published in 2008.

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations Development Human Rights Information Exchange International Migration Migrants Migration Report Preparation Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Recognizes that exchanges of information and expertise, consultation and closer cooperation between the Global Forum on Migration and Development and the United Nations could have a positive impact, and in this regard:

Welcomes the transmission to the Secretary-General by the Government of Belgium of the summary report of the first meeting of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, circulated as a document of the General Assembly,Error: Reference source not found and invites organizers of subsequent meetings of the Forum to continue this practice;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in his report called for in resolution 61/208 an evaluation of the existing cooperation mechanisms on migration and development and to make it available to the Global Forum on Migration and Development, at its second meeting, in 2008;

Encourages Member States to participate actively in, and the organizations that are members of the Global Migration Group, within their respective areas of expertise, to contribute and to provide technical support to the Global Forum on Migration and Development;

Notes that the Global Forum on Migration and Development, through its Steering Group, maintains links with the Secretary-General, notably through his Special Representative on International Migration and Development;

Takes note with interest of the agenda prepared for the discussions of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, and the title of the second meeting of the Global Forum, “Protecting and empowering migrants for development”, and particularly welcomes the inclusion of the topic of the human rights of migrants;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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