Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not sign on to a global UN migration pact.
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which will not be legally binding, was finalized under UN auspices in July. It is due to be formally approved at a meeting Morocco next month.
In a statement, Netanyahu says he instructed the Foreign Ministry not to sign the pact in Marrakesh, saying Israel is “committed to maintaining our borders against illegal infiltrators. That is what we have done in the past and will constitute to do.”
Australia, Austria, Poland, and the United States also say they will not sign the migration agreement.
In 2016, all 193 UN member states adopted a declaration saying no country can manage international migration on its own, and agreed to launch a process leading to the adoption of a global compact in 2018.
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