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USA's withdraw from UN's Global Compact on Migration
December 5 , 2017
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- The United States has pulled out of Global Compact on Migration.
- It has argued that Obama-era negotiated UN compact process deal contains numerous provisions that inconsistent with country’s immigration and refugee policies and Trump Administration’s immigration principles.
- The US has been a part of the non-binding New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants since it was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly last year.
- The declaration called for negotiations on a Global Compact for Migration, aimed at protecting the rights of refugees and migrants and helping them resettle.
- The refugees and migration compact is the fourth initiative the United States has withdrawn from this year.
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