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STORY: UN / INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 MAY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
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19 MAY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
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5. SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph Deiss, President of the 65th General Assembly, United Nations:
“The number of international migrants estimated in 2010 to number 214 million is constantly increasing and that trend has not been reversed by the economic financial crisis. It is essential in the four years that remain before the target date for the achievement of the millennium development goals in 2015 that migration should be made a positive force for development, and benefit the various parties involved, not only the migrants themselves of course but their countries of origin and countries of destination.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Often the debate over migration devolves to loss: migrants overstretch social safety nets, some say. Others worry that they will overwhelm education systems and take away jobs.
But statistics show that the economic contribution of migrant workers far outweighs any costs. Migrants often do the jobs that others will not … the so-called “3D” jobs – jobs that are dirty, dangerous and difficult.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Nearly two thirds of the world’s 214 million migrants live in wealthy countries. The remittances they send home total more than $300 billion a year. That figure dwarfs international aid flows. Across the developing world, remittances make it possible for families to get health care send their children to school and start up small businesses.”
Remittances underwrite development. They are a source for stability and social cohesion.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) William Lacey Swing, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM):
“Migration is that desire of everyone, the option to leave ones place of birth or boat in search of opportunities for a better life. We know from our own recent history that migrants were largely responsible for building up post war economies of North America, Australia, and the so called ‘New World’. Migrants have also contributed to strengthen the social fabric and economies of European countries over the last several decades but today very often when countries refer proudly of being a migrant nation they’re too often talking about yesterday’s migrants not those who are now appearing on shores and borders, and this is our concern.”
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today underlined the role of migrants in accelerating development through remitting funds regularly to their countries of origin, noting that their economic contributions to host societies are often overlooked.
“Let Nearly two thirds of the world’s 214 million migrants live in wealthy countries; the remittances they send home total more than $300 billion a year.,” Ban told the General Assembly’s thematic debate on Migration and Development.
“Across the developing world, remittances make it possible for families to get health care send their children to school and start up small businesses,” said the Secretary-General.
He observed that without the support of relatives working abroad, many more people might seek to migrate.
Ban said that migrants do not always fit into the stereotype of an unskilled group of people with low levels of education doing the so-called “3D” jobs – tasks that are considered “dirty, dangerous and difficult.”
Joseph Deiss, the President of the 65th General Assembly noted that the number of international migrants estimated in 2010 to as 214 million was constantly increasing and that trend had not been reversed by the economic financial crisis.
He stressed that it was essential that in the coming four years that remained until the target date for the achievement of the millennium development goals in 2015 that migration should be made into a positive force for development.
The Director General of the International Office for Migration (IOM), William Lacey Swing, reminded delegates that that migrants were largely responsible for building up post war economies of “North America, Australia, and the so called ‘New World’, and that migrants had also contributed to strengthening the social fabric and economies of European countries over the last several decades but, swing added that “today very often when countries refer proudly of being a migrant nation they’re too often talking about yesterday’s migrants not those who are now appearing on shores and borders, and this is our concern.”
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