Global Compact on Migration Document Finalized

Intergovernmental negotiations were finalized today for the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration document that will be formally adopted in Marrakech, Morocco, in December.
Miroslav Lajcák (centre), President of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly, and Co-facilitators for the Global Compact on Migration process Juan José Gómez Camacho (second from right), Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN, and Jürg Lauber (right), Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the UN, hold up the gavel at the end of the meeting finalizing the draft of the document. At left are Louise Arbour, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration and Secretary-General of the Conference, and Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (second from left in front).