 Thank you so much and good afternoon. We have decided to include this last panel of this IDM looking for the future, because indeed the International Migration Review Forum that is foreseen in the global compact on safe orderly and regular migration is a fast approaching. We expect it to take place in May next year, hopefully presentially in New York, and it is extremely important to listen to you about how you think these IMRF should be prepared, because being the first one, it will be extremely important to seize this opportunity to shape its tone, its focus, and the level of ambition of the IMRF, because definitely these will set a standard for the future. From my side as coordinator of UN Migration Network, I will have the opportunity to brief member states on the preparations of the Migration Review Forum next Tuesday, 19th of October, and having invited the president of the General Assembly to join me in this session. But as you know, as the global compact itself states, the IDM as one of the principal forum for migration policy dialogue in the IOM framework is explicitly referred to as having to contribute to the International Migration Review Forum. And from the current moment until May, we will have a number of important moments that will pave the way for the final conclusion of the IMRF. One of those moments will be the the release by the Secretary General of its report on the implementation of the global compact on safe orderly and regular migration. And we are seriously thinking about organizing the next IDM session in the spring next year in the very early spring in February around the launch of the Secretary General report. And we expect to build on the substantive inputs that the IDM has provided us during these last two years. Because in 2020, as you might remember, we dedicated a panel to discuss the operationalization of the global compact for the response and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. And in the first IDM of this year, we have looked about on the links between migration and climate change. And now we are concluding the second IDM of this year. And I think that the best way of concluding is precisely to ask a few questions. First, what is the best way of IDM to contribute to the International Migration Review Forum next year? And what could be the essential recommendations to the IDM to the forum from the IDM to the forum? And especially, how can we look at the links between the global compact and Agenda 2030 when it comes to the contribution of migration to development? And I'm very privileged to have today a panel that can help us to think, reflect, and look ahead. That's why I want to start by thanking our panelists. His Excellency, Mr. Sanjay Bhattasharya, Vice Minister of the Ministry of External Affairs of India, who is joining online. That will be followed by Mrs. Christine O'Dwyer from the European External Action Service in Brussels. And last but not least, definitely Ambassador Holly Elwish Pardo Cuerdo, Ambassador for Migratory Affairs from Spain. So I would like to give the floor to His Excellency, Mr. Sanjay Bhattasharya. So you have the floor. Thank you. Thank you. Director General Antonio Vittorini, fellow panelists, ladies and gentlemen. Namaskar. Good evening. Across my country today, the people of India are celebrating one of our biggest festivals. Ten days of festivities culminating in the Serra in the north, Durga Puja in the east and south, and Navratri across most of the country. So we extend the greetings and warm wishes of over a billion people to all of you on this very joyous occasion. We are celebrating the triumph of good over evil and the revival of the human spirit. We are also celebrating the diversity of our culture and heritage, enriched and preserved by our interactions over ages with other civilizations and communities. In a sense, we are reaping the benefits of our migratory instincts and tradition. Director General, thank you for the invitation to participate in the International Dialogue on Migration. As you know, India has a significant footprint in global migration dynamics. Our diaspora, whom we call pravasis or presence of Indian origin, number over 31 million, with 18 million of them being our citizens or non-resident Indians, and they are present in over 150 countries. Their contributions to the development of the destination countries have been widely acknowledged. In some cases, they have adopted the destination country as their new homes and many whole prominent positions in politics, in business, in academics, in science and technology, arts and culture. We in India realize the benefits of an interconnected world and are prepared to play a role in building consensus on migration and mobility as we move ahead in these somewhat difficult times. Migration has indeed been in a churn and the COVID-19 pandemic has made the effects more visible. For some time, we have seen how economic restructuring, technology change, new industry, the use of data and aging societies have affected labor markets. In this transformative era, we need to be dynamic in responding to the changing circumstances to provide greater benefit to all our peoples. The mainstreaming of migration policy to the development agenda is thus essential. The global compact for safe orderly and regular migration reached in Marrakesh represents an important outcome at the multilateral level. Wider acceptance and application of its concepts will provide positive momentum to the international migration and to the achievement of SDGs. At the same time, GCM has to be mindful of national sovereignty and also be dynamic and responsive while it takes care of new challenges and opportunities. Ever since India obtained the full membership of the IOM, we have been involved in many of your activities. A priority of the global agenda today is how to recover from the deep and adverse effects of COVID-19, particularly those on the migrants who have been substantially affected. India recently shared with the IOM Council a draft proposal on multilateral social security arrangements for adoption. IOM and the India Center for Migration, a think tank based in New Delhi, entered into a collaborative project on strengthening data-informed and migrant-centered migration management frameworks in India. This project will study best practices with regard to international migration data management to strengthen evidence-based policy making and also explore opportunities for new migration corridors based on special sectoral data and trends. The project also aims to provide a gender-sensitive strategy which is in line with the objectives of my government. This will also be in alignment with the UN data strategy and will obviously also help us in attaining the objectives of SDGs. The project will facilitate evidence-based approaches for what we think has now become necessary for safe, legal, smart, and sustainable migration. Besides the multilateral track, India has also joined sectoral consultative processes initiated and supported by IOM, which include the Colombo process, the Abu Dhabi dialogue, the Budapest process, and others. Separately, India has also been engaged with the European Union on the common agenda on migration and mobility. CAM, which serves as a foundation for collaboration between India and EU member states, has common objectives and recommendations on migration management and we are focused on four priority areas. Organizing regular migration, maximizing the development impact, promoting international protection, and preventing and tackling irregular migration. Additionally, this understanding has led to bilateral agreements with several EU countries to promote migration and mobility. India seeks to align with the core aspects of the GCM in its international strategy through multiple initiatives. The legal channels for migration have always been emphasized as the basis is provided by our Migration Act of 1983, which is currently under review. We have developed a e-migrate system for the benefit of welfare of workers, Indian workers going overseas. The platform operates as a single window for registration, renewal, and immigration clearance, and also has an e-locker for safekeeping of all relevant documents. Through e-migrate, we can assist migrant workers, both at home and overseas, and also sometimes when it becomes necessary, take action against agents who are indulging in unethical recruitment processes. We have concluded negotiations for the integration of the e-migrate portal with the employment migration portals of certain GCC countries to introduce further transparency and widen opportunities for workers. The e-migrate portal is now not limited only to a few countries, but is open to all foreign employers across the world to source talent from India. We have realized during the pandemic, more than ever before, that skills have emerged as an important vector to promote migrant returns. To ensure safe, orderly, regular migration, we started the pre-departure orientation training, particularly for the migrant workers who are mostly low-skilled or semi-skilled. P.DOT, as we call it, is aligned with our motto of Surakshith Jaya, Trashikshith Jaya, Vishwas Ke Sath Jaya, which means go secure, go skilled, go with assurance. The P.DOT program provides soft skills in terms of culture, language, local rules and regulations of the destination country, and also the welfare measures that are provided by my government through our embassies abroad. These welfare measures include the Indian Community Welfare Fund, the Pravasi Bhartya Bhima Yojna, or the insurance team which is available for all migrant workers, and the Madat Grievance Redressal Portal. Further, to tackle irregular migrations, smuggling and trafficking, India ratified international conventions to suppress trafficking and smuggling of migrants. On skilling, India has also established partnerships with the state governments, industry chambers, corporate sector, and foreign entities to set up the India International Skill Centers across the country to guide potential migrants with a focus on skill tests, upskilling, language requirements. Recent labour agreements that we have signed with some of the GCC countries and also with countries such as Japan, UK, and Portugal are part of the newer generation of agreements that emphasize cooperation on skills to leverage our demographic dividend and youthful population to new destinations for labour mobility and migration. In conclusion, I would wish to suggest a few thoughts. First, policy must prioritize migrant returns in alignment with development priorities. Second, we see continued relevance of greater multilateral, plurilateral, and bilateral coordination on migration and mobility issues. Third, we should provide as a government an enabling environment where workers and professionals can move in safe and legal ways to support the development of destination countries, and at the same time, who may recognize and acknowledge the contributions made by the migrants. Fourth, it is crucial to explore additional approaches to streamline GCM objectives with the national priorities of different countries on migration issues. And finally, fifth, rapidly changing scenarios called for dynamic responses. I have confidence that a collaborative approach of sharing information and experiences for the adoption of a holistic and pragmatic agenda that builds upon the GCM, which truly was a game changer, can set the stage for a very successful International Migration Review Forum. India stands ready to engage with the global community for outcomes that bring benefits to all. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, Vice Minister, and thank you for providing us with a number of guidelines that we should take on board when preparing the International Migration Review Forum next year. We appreciate very much. Now, I will turn to Mrs. Christine O'Dwyer from the European External Action Services that links with us from Brussels. Madam, you have the floor. Thank you, Mr. Director, General Panelists and participants. I'm very honored and glad to be addressing this dialogue today, which touches on very important issues that are obviously going to be keeping us busy for the months to come. In fact, it is firmly our belief at the External Action Service as well with our colleagues in the Commission that the global challenges that we are facing today do require global solutions. And this can only be based in our view on strong and effective multilateral approaches, which are based on solidarity, human rights, and rules-based international order. The global compact for migration is in itself an achievement of multilateralism in our view, as it is based on its multistakeholder, whole of government, whole of society, and a whole of a root approach, which make it such an overwhelming achievement. Such principles are mirrored in the EU's work on migration. Today, the work of the Commission and of the EAS in supporting the GCMs implementation are ingrained in the new PACT on Migration and Asylum, which we published, the Commission published in September 2020. The PACT proposes a renewed strategy to tackle both the internal and external dimension of EU migration policy. It builds a more reliable and efficient and aims at a fair migration system in the EU. Obviously, for anyone that follows these discussions, this is not always a very easy discussion. And obviously, even our own member states have different positions and come from different sides to this discussion. In line with the objectives of the global compact, we recognize the necessity for the EU to build strong and tailor-made partnerships with countries of origin, transit, and destination. We want to strengthen our comprehensive and balanced framework for engagement with partners, and we firmly believe on the need to listen to the concerns of our partners and the countries that we are seeking to engage with. Many times, when we are having negotiations and discussions, one of the biggest concerns that obviously is mentioned is the fear of brain drain and the fear of losing out on opportunities. So we try to pay heed to these concerns as much as possible, also in our proposals. We have intensified extensive bilateral regional and multilateral dialogues. We want to ensure as much ownership of as possible by all the parties involved in our cooperation. And we also never, we do not believe there is one size that fits all when it comes to migration policy. And this is precisely the reason why we are working to develop, as I mentioned earlier, the tailor-made approach, which is specific in context, but rooted in the global objectives of the GCM. In this work of helping countries, we are helping countries hosting a large number of refugees and displaced people. And this remains a priority, notably also with the development in crisis, such as we are seeing in Afghanistan. We want to keep our support and assistance to neighboring countries who are already hosting a very large number of refugees. We know that the vast majority of displaced people are hosted outside of the EU. We acknowledge that. And so we work to support partner countries, provide protection to those in need, access-based services, and we help with steps towards social and labour market integration as much as we possibly can. At the same time, we are stepping up our efforts to facilitate resettlement to Europe, continuing to increase resettlement efforts in parallel to other legal pathways for protections such as community or private sponsorships, or as now also we refer to them in EU-Dragon talent partnerships. Our work on development will also continue, and we will continue to build opportunities and addressing the root causes of a regular migration by helping to build strong and cohesive societies as much as possible, try to create economic opportunities, in particular for the youth, to help them feel like their future does belong in their home country if they so wish. Through the work on the external dimension, a priority for us also is the strengthening the capacity of our partners contributing to the development of their migration governance systems in a mutually beneficial way. This applies, for example, to return and new admission, which although it's an important element of the partnerships, and it remains an objective and a priority for the member states and the EU. In line with the objective of the GCM, we work towards creating situations for safe and dignified return of migrants, giving always preference to voluntary return options, including cooperation on sustainable integration of return migrants to maximize the positive impact in the communities of origin. Of course, for us, the overarching objective of the global compact is to foster safe, regular, and orderly migration, and this is very much the objective of the strategy as well as well managed regular migration and mobility. We want to have benefits for all the parties involved, both the countries of origin and destination, as well as the migrants themselves. As you know, about two million migrants enter legally the EU of the year and expanding pathways for regular migration, including labour migration, is in our view an important element for our strategy to succeed. Legal migration also unlocks the full potential of migration as a transformative force, as many migrants contribute to their national economies through remittances, as we've heard already by previous speakers and the previous panel, and we are fully committed to implementing the GCM's objective of supporting cheaper, faster, and safer transfer of remittances. All of our work on going and implementing the new pact of migration, as I mentioned earlier, is deeply rooted in the objectives of the global compact. Its 23 objectives are indispensable pieces of a comprehensive puzzle that will help us build a migration governance system that delivers on the objective of working towards safe orderly and regular migration at all levels. When thinking about the road ahead in the review of the GCM, we cannot ignore the different contexts in which we live in today. COVID-19 has changed the shape of international mobility and it's also important to consider how to rebuild a post pandemic system, resuming international movement of people across borders that goes hand-in-hand with prosperity. The EU, we aim to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on migration, including on migrants themselves, as part of our internal and external response to the pandemic. We recognize that this issue exemplifies the necessity to strengthen multilateral solutions and we are committed to supporting the UN Secretary General's efforts to coordinate a UN-wide response. Three years after the ratification of the GCM, it is now time not only to look at the positive success stories of its implementation, but we believe I have to reflect on what is also possibly not working as well as we had hoped for. In the months ahead, all the stakeholders and boards will be confronted with this work in order to come out of the international migration review forum with a stronger global migration governance. We are ready to help and we are ready to be active and contribute to this development and to this review. And we look forward to doing our share and working closely with IOM and all of our partners in this process. Thank you. Thank you so much for your contribution. Definitely the Global Compact is one of the most striking examples of a multilateral cooperation and its platform of cooperation that allows member states to build strong partnership relations in terms of managing migration. And I appreciate particularly the fact that the spirit of the IMRF next year is to identify what were the areas where progress has been achieved, but also what are the areas where there are still gaps that need to benefit from the attention and the engagement of the member states. And now to conclude the list of speakers of this panel, I have the honor of giving the floor to Ambassador José Luis Pardo Cuerdo, Ambassador for Migratory Affairs from Spain. And it's a pleasure to see you. Please, you have the floor. Bienvenido. Muchas gracias. Mucho obrigado. Dejaré un segundito para que se active la función de interpretación para los asistentes. Permítame en primer lugar agradecer en nombre de mi país la amable invitación que nos ha pulsado la OIM y su director general para participar en este panel de diálogo internacional sobre la migración dedicado al camino hacia el foro de exame migratorio internacional. Para nosotros la invitación a este panel es causa de especial satisfacción. Tuvimos el honor de ser junto a Bangladesh los países cofacilitadores de la resolución de la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas que adoptó en 2019 las modalidades del foro de exame migratorio internacional. Entonces, hace ya más de dos años la fecha del primer FEMI parecía un lejana, pero el tiempo pasa de prisa y ya estamos, como nos ha recordado a todos, el director general Vitorino, ya estamos acercándonos a esa importante cita. La pandemia del COVID ha perturbado el normal desarrollo del ITER del primer ciclo cuatriental de examen de ejecución del pacto mundial para una migración segura ordenada y regular. Y a la última cumbre, por ejemplo, del foro global de migración y desarrollo, tuvo que celebrarse online. Las limitaciones sanitarias han tenido también influencia en el calendario previsto de los procesos regionales de revisión bienal de los progresos de ejecución del pacto. Pero, pese a esos contratiempos, la red de Naciones Unidas para las Migraciones y, muy especialmente, la OIM, como su Secretariado Técnico, ha sabido arbitrar procedimientos eficaces para asegurar un seguimiento del pacto, tanto a nivel global como regional y nacional, y con ello, por tanto, una preparación del camino hacia el primer foro de examen. Nos felicitamos de ello y felicitamos a la OIM por este trabajo. A nivel nacional, España, como sólido defensor de los pactos mundiales, tanto sobre migración como sobre asilo, ha hecho buen uso de estas ofertas que ofrecía la red de Naciones Unidas para las Migraciones. Hemos participado activamente en las sesiones dedicadas al seguimiento del pacto, en las cumbres del foro global de migración y de desarrollo, bajo las presidencias de Ecuador y de Mirados Árabes Unidos en los dos últimos años. Participamos también activamente en la conferencia regional para el seguimiento del pacto en Europa, organizada en noviembre de 2020, conjuntamente por la OIM y la Comisión Económica de Naciones Unidas para Europa. Y elaboramos, por cierto, para esa cita un amplio informe de progreso en la ejecución del pacto a nivel nacional, un documento vivo que está en permanente actualización y que constituye para nosotros a nivel nacional una referencia para todos los ministerios y los departamentos competentes en la implementación de cada uno de los 23 objetivos del pacto. A nivel nacional también creamos una plataforma de diálogos sobre el pacto entre los ministerios más competentes y las agencias de la red de Naciones Unidas de Migraciones con Seren España. Junto a la misma y organizado por la delegación de la OIM en España, organizamos el pasado mes de junio unas jornadas con la sociedad civil en aplicación del principio whole of society approach incluido en el pacto. Nuestra sociedad civil como creo que todas las sociedades civiles de nuestros países tienen altas expectativas sobre los resultados del foro. Estamos seguros que como nosotros, otros muchos estados han utilizado estas herramientas y otras adicionales para seguir el cumplimiento del pacto y que seguirán haciéndolo y de forma acelerada en los meses previos al foro de examen. No entraré en comentar los aspectos procedimentales del foro y su preparación, sin duda muy importantes, pero que en gran medida están enmarcados y definidos en la resolución de modalidades. Me centraré, sin embargo, en subrayar tres elementos que a mi país le gustaría que marcaran cierta medida los debates en ese primer foro migratorio y le las sesiones del lialgo internacional sobre migraciones que le precisan. En primer lugar, la concertación de la alta resiliencia del fenómeno migratorio contemporáneo demostrada en tiempos transversos como los de una pandemia mundial sin precedentes que ha afectado plenamente a la movilidad humana. Creemos que en el foro no se debería tratar tanto de reiterar análisis que durante estos años hemos hecho en diferentes foros solo esos impactos de la pandemia en las migraciones y las medidas adoptadas a nivel nacional, tema que también ha centrado los muy interesantes debates de los paneles de esta sesión del diálogo internacional sobre las migraciones, cuanto más bien en reconocer la pervivencia de los desafíos migratorios que la pandemia no ha creado, pero sí ha hecho más visibles y con ello nos ha empujado a todos a actuar a corto plazo, pero que se trata de desafíos que deberemos seguir encarando en el futuro a medio y a largo plazo. En este sentido hemos visto cómo la movilidad regular y la movilidad por motivos laborales se estancó durante la pandemia, pero que se está retomando y que su demanda es y será creciente. Pero también hemos asistido a fenómenos como la reasunción de la migración irregular y la rápida adaptación de las redes de tráfico de migrantes y de trata de seres humanos, el incremento de vulnerabilidades en ciertos sectores de la población migrante, especial en mujeres y menores no acompañados, los nuevos retos en el ámbito de la integración y la inclusión desee a la demostración palmaria durante la epidemia de la aportación efectiva de los migrantes y de la migración a la actividad económica en todos nuestros países o el inesperado y excelente comportamiento de las remesas sobre las que se cernían previsiones oscuras de caídas en todo al 20 por ciento. Bien, son todos ellos fenómenos por citar unos pocos que nos han de hacer es reflexionar. El segundo punto que queríamos subrayar con vistas al foro de mayo es que debemos prepararnos todos y preparar todos cada uno en el nivel de sus responsabilidades de actuación una buena política de comunicación sobre el foro que evite los problemas de interpretaciones incorrectas o abusivas que tuvieron lugar en torno a la aprobación del pacto durante el segundo semestre de 2018. Hacemos votos para que los países que no participaron en las negociaciones del pacto o que mantuvieron dudas en el momento de su aprobación estén presentes en el foro y contribuyan a sus actividades y a sus debates. En tercer lugar, en último lugar, creemos que cuatro años después de la negociación del pacto, el foro mundial de mayo es una oportunidad óptima para avanzar hacia mayores potas de consenso global sobre el propio fenómeno migratorio. Inexplicablemente, pues el objetivo era justamente el contrario, el pacto mundial migratorio causó una polémica con efectos sociales y políticos en varias regiones especialmente aunque no sólo en Europa. Hoy afortunadamente gran parte de esa polémica se ha diluido pero es tiempo de superarla completamente y de ser ambiciosos y el foro puede ser el lugar adecuado para ello siempre que todos seamos capaces de comprometernos no sólo en el ámbito teórico sino en el práctico en torno a pocos pero fundamentales principios. Primero que la migración internacional es un fenómeno complejo y multidimensional que no puede dejarse a su propio desarrollo sino que debe gestionarse y subrayamos gestionarse. Segundo que esa gestión en la que el respecto a los derechos humanos y a la dignidad humana no son negociables es una tarea global de todos subrayamos de todos y no una responsabilidad que atañe sólo a una categoría de estados sean estos de origen o sean estos de destino. Tercero que la única manera de encarar esa tarea con garantías de éxito es a través de la cooperación internacional sin la cual no lograremos el objetivo principal del pacto que no es otro que hacer de la migración un fenómeno cada vez más seguro y voluntario para los migrantes y sus familias y más ordenado y regular para los estados de origen de tránsito y de destino que debemos gestionar. Los estados y las organizaciones internacionales deberíamos apudir a la cita del foro en mayo con un renovado espíritu y enfoque constructivo y global con innovación con imaginación con ambición y con pragmatismo. Esos deberían ser los principios que nos llevaran con los llevarlos en la maleta del foro en Nueva York. Deberíamos de ser capaces en el foro de proyectarnos hacia el futuro vislumbrar cómo querríamos que fuera la realidad migratoria en 2026, el segundo FEMI, y tan solo cuatro años antes de la fecha de la conclusión de la agenda 2030, y evitar estancarlos en argumentos y enfoques de pasado, o limitarlos solo a los retos del presente, ciertamente severos y sobre los que tenemos un inexcusable deber de seguir enfrentando. Debemos sacar a sí mismo conclusiones conjuntamente y con honestidad de las causas y de las consecuencias en términos tanto de gestión como de protección efectiva de derechos de los diferentes huellos de botella que existen en la actualidad en relación a los flujos de carácter mixto. En la medida de lo posible, y teniendo en cuenta los medios y las capacidades diferenciadas de cada estado y evidentemente en el respeto a los mandatos respectivos de cada agencia y organización internacional, en el foro deberíamos encontrar espacio para cubrir, aunque no fuera de manera estrictamente simétrica, todos los 23 objetivos del pacto, y no solo aquellos en los que tengamos más intereses ofensivos. Un seguimiento de la gestión migratoria única y exclusivamente centrado en derechos no sería completo. Tampoco lo sería un enfoque única y exclusivamente centrado en reglas. Un debate única y exclusivamente centrado en términos de solidaridad no sería completo. Tampoco lo sería un enfoque única y exclusivamente centrado en términos de responsabilidad. Es posible encontrar plataformas wing-wind de intereses comunes. En la experiencia pasada y en la porvenir tenemos buenos ejemplos de iniciativas y proyectos. Trabajemos en ellos porque esa sería sin duda la forma más eficaz y efectiva de convencir a los migrantes y a sus familias de que verdaderamente les colocamos en el centro de nuestra atención. Muchas gracias. Muchas gracias, embajador, y comparto totalmente el apelo a una participación el más amplia posible en el foro en el año que viene. Se trata de una ocasión donde todos los países que son miembros de las Naciones Unidas pueden participar y en mi opinión deben participar independientemente del planteamiento que han tenido sobre el pacto de Marrakech en 2018. Yo suscribo totalmente el apelo a una participación amplia y sobre todo a que tengamos en línea de cuenta la necesidad de impedir la manipulación y la distorsión del contenido del pacto que es una plataforma voluntaria de cooperación entre estados que mantienen todas sus competencias en materia migratoria, pero que reconocen el valor añadido de la cooperación internacional. Muchas gracias una vez más, embajador. And now we turn to the floor for your contributions. The ones who want to take the floor please flag to the to the secretariat. I have already a list of speakers. The first one being Mr Mustafizur Rahman, the ambassador and permanent representative of Bangladesh that has sent us is that please Mr Ambassador, you have the floor. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Director General. We thank the distinguished panelists for their very insightful presentations. The first IMRF will occur at a critical time when we live in uncertainties and yet aspire to recover better. The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered unfathomable implications for the migrants, particularly the migrant workers in many places faced the green reality of job loss forced return. While we are preparing for the review forum, the necessity of a role based migration governance is felt more than ever before. The pandemic has reversed the achievements so far attained by countries in demanding its duties and GCM objectives. It has also exposed the vulnerability of migrants with the potential to leave them behind. We stress that it is necessary to step up the implementation of GCM for an inclusive recovery of inclusive and effective recovery, particularly in countries of destination and origin. International cooperation is required to be urgently revitalized and their IOM's critical role is undilaterally. As one of the co-facilitators of the IMRF consultation process and as a GCM champion country, Bangladesh places high importance on the outcome of IMRF next year. We underline that the review forum will renew discussion on the challenges to development oriented and who migrants, migration governance, particularly during a global crisis. In this connection, we take positive note of the roadmap prepared by the UN Network on Migration. We request the IOM and the network to identify the structural challenges to the GCM objectives and migration related entities. We emphasize that the next IDM should highlight the discussion on this topic and issue and inform the IMRF for addressing it. Thank you so much, Ambassador, for your contribution. And now I give the floor to Mrs. Cindy Monroe, Minister-Councillor of Department of Mission of Canada in Geneva. You have the floor, Madam. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'd like to begin by expressing my appreciation to the IOM for another thought provoking IDM. It is appropriate that we conclude the IDM with this panel as the GCM is a key tool for ensuring that migration can play an important role in a resilient, sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. When we commit to regular pathways, we help ensure that migrants can move across borders safely and that host societies can benefit from their presence, including in their economic recovery. Canada participated in two regional review processes. We were impressed by how well they went and we benefited from the exposure to good practices and to the critical reflections from stakeholders. There was a lot of interest and engagement and we believe that such review processes have a signaling effect, generating momentum for further implementation and collaboration. We once again extend our gratitude to the network and the IOM as the coordinator and secretariat for all of their efforts. We would like to work closely with the IOM, UN bodies and agencies, other member states and stakeholders to lay the groundwork for a productive IMRF that allows us to frankly take stock of our progress to date while collectively establishing priorities to concentrate our future efforts. Throughout this process, it is important that we hear from diverse actors and I'm pleased that we've had the opportunity today to reflect on the perspectives brought by the panelists on this panel, but also throughout the day and yesterday. Looking ahead to the IMRF, we believe that enhanced collaboration at the regional level in the lead up could help to enable a meaningful global review. At the regional level, while accounting for national particularities, we often share similar experiences in regards to migration and can benefit from discussing the broader context of our national migration experiences. This is why Canada has been pleased to see increased interest in regional engagement in the Americas. For example, just last month, the IOM and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean held a virtual workshop to examine how the regional conference on migration can contribute to the IMRF. Continuing to encourage and facilitate increased regional engagement through workshops or similar events is one area where we would appreciate continued support from the IOM in the coming months. The IMRF also represents a unique opportunity to focus attention on GCM objectives and principles that require further concentrated efforts to advance them, such as gender responsive migration management. Here the IOM can offer the international community evidence of where challenges exist while proposing solutions on how to address them and sharing examples of successful practices from other states and organizations. There are excellent examples in this morning session on empowering migrant women and youth. From our perspective, the next IDM session that will take place in February could form something of a global stock taking, helping to set the scene for states to track and communicate their progress and planned next steps in the IMRF. Canada is hopeful that together we can achieve an IMRF that inspires participants to continue advancing GCM implementation far beyond the meeting next year. We all have a role to play to ensure that the GCM is a living, evolving roadmap that helps us to seize migration opportunities while confronting any challenges that remain toward the achievement of a post-pandemic recovery and that seeks to leave no one behind. As a champion country, we will continue to advocate for the GCM as a contributor to this recovery and to play our part, working closely with other states and non-state actors in building momentum towards next year's review. Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you so much, madam. And now I give the floor to Horavut Sputakkanling. I hope I have pronounced the name correctly. From the Minister-Councillor of the Permanent Mission of Thailand, you have the floor. With my apologies if I mispronounced your name. No problem at all. Thank you very much, Director General, for giving me the floor to this important and timely panel. As you just said, the IMRF is soon approaching, which is only half a year away from now. In this regard, allow me to share Thailand's experience on GCM implementation and our undertakings in preparing for the upcoming IMRF. Thailand is committed to the goals and objectives of the global compact for migrations. We made initial contributions to the Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund and have assumed a role as one of GCM champion countries with a view to share our experiences to promote the actual implementation of GCM at all levels. Over the past years, Thailand has made important progress on GCM implementation. We have set up a national in the agency working group and adopted a national GCM implementation plan for 2020 to 2022. The plan aims at promoting safe orderly and regular migration through a whole of government and whole of society approach. Concrete projects are being pursued in support of GCM objectives in line with the 2030 agenda and we will work closely with the regional network for migration in the Asia Pacific to capture these progress gearing up towards the IMRF next year. During the first GCM regional review for the Asia Pacific held in March 2021, Thailand actively participated in the session as well as co-hosted two side events with the International Detention Coalition and UNICEF on the issue of alternative to detention and rights of children in the context of migration in ASEAN. Also just an hour ago, a representative from Thailand to part as a speaker in an online webinar also co-hosted by Thailand on accelerated progress to end child immigration detention organized by UN task force on children deprived of their liberties. This is a testament of our commitment in one of the two areas we volunteer to be a champion. To keep the momentum of the regional review going, Thailand has proposed holding the first in what we would be a series of consultations together with five other GCM champion countries in Asia and the Pacific in collaboration of course with the regional network. The series aimed to enforce regional cooperation on this important matter. It will also incorporate the issue of COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse socioeconomic impacts which has exacerbated the situation among international migrants and their families. So we hope that the outcome report of the series will contribute to the IMIF as well. Thailand also decided to participate in the migration governance index progress conducted jointly by IOM and the Economist Intelligence Unit. We are glad to learn that more than 80 countries decided to join this process. We hope that its outcome will enable us to better understand the set of migration management around the world. Moreover, we appreciate the work of UN network on migration in supporting member states to prepare for the IMIF and took note of the recently introduced roadmap and dedicated website developed by the network. Last but not least, recovering from the pandemic may require a renewed focus on the global compact. IMIF will be an important opportunity to share direction on all our endeavours. No single country can manage complex issue of migration alone. International committee has a chair of responsibility in this regard. Therefore, we look forward to identifying the gaps and building on experiences and best practices chair dealing the upcoming review. I thank you. Thank you so much for your contribution. And now I give the floor to Ambassador Evan Garcia, the permanent representative of the Philippines. Thank you. Thank you very much, DG. I wish only to add my voice to all those who have spoken earlier. To thank you for the valuable work of the IOM in preparing the road towards the IMRF. As a GCM champion country, we consider these international dialogue and discussions absolutely critical for forging a path that we can all share in getting towards better global migration governance. And as an aspect of this, the migration network is itself a signal improvement as it does away with the old silos that used to divide the agencies who had to handle migration. But even as we do so, we should remain reminded of the fact that our work must be grounded in the realities of key communities. Of course, these are the communities of the migrants, of the communities they come from, and from the host communities. If we do not take into account the ground realities of these communities, we may stray from the path of trying to improve global governance for migration. And in each case, we have to take into consideration certain emerging realities. The increasing transnationalization, shall we say, of the three communities have implications on the work we should do as an organization and as countries that want to cooperate together. And each of the three have their own historical experiences, which in recent times have not been, shall we say, the most salubrious. We have to take this into account when we craft the responses we would like to see and finally, we should take into account their aspirations. They have similar or not similar aspirations, but if we do not consider their aspirations, we will be only talking among ourselves. We won't be bringing their perspectives into this great effort that we are working on together. So with those, I would like to thank you, DG, and your entire staff for an excellent, excellent idea. Thank you. Thank you, Ambassador, very kind words. And now I give the floor to Mr. José Eduardo Jojo Oropeza from Mexico. Please, you have the floor, please. Programmes de protección e integración estamos teniendo muy buenos resultados y por otro lado hemos este esta metodología nos ha permitido identificar oportunidades más grandes respecto a los a la portabilidad de la seguridad social al reconocimiento de de cualificaciones y capacitaciones y aptitudes ya a la utilización de la detención como último recurso. En esta metodología la hemos estado compartiendo también al interior de la CRM y es y creemos que va a ser uno de los aportes principales a la revisión de pacto el año que entra respecto a la pandemia comentar muy brevemente que México también ha estado muy activo en dos vías sobre todo incluyendo la población extranjera en la estrategia nacional de vacunación y por supuesto impulsando la cooperación internacional para que todos los países de la región contemos con la vacuna. En el papel de la presidencia protépore de la conferencia regional sobre migración se ha establecido también una actividad estructural de manera permanente con los países para yurla en el plan de acción anual de cada presidencia protépore y que este sea un tema que no falte en la agenda de la conferencia regional sobre migración. Por último de igual manera compartís dos vías que estamos identificando para la aportación en el FEMI de manera individual México por supuesto compartirá esta metodología desarrollada para que se pueda promover como una buena práctica creemos que podemos aportar en ese sentido como país y por supuesto desde el rol de la presidencia protémpore de la conferencia regional sobre migración generaremos un insumo específico por parte de la conferencia que se tendrá listo en el primer trimestre del 2022 dando continuidad al taller que acabamos de generar en el pasado mes de septiembre y que México impulsará ya no como presidente protémpore pero sí como parte de la prohíca de la conferencia regional sobre migración sería cuánto presidente agradezco mucho por los minutos gracias por la intervención y y now to conclude the list of speakers that have here i will call and give the floor to laurel town head from the quaker united nations office thank you um thank you director general um and thank you for the panelists for their interventions and the others who've spoken this afternoon we're pleased to see the roadmap published and to begin in earnest the process of working together towards a meaningful i am rf our hopes and expectations of the i am rf for that it will set the tone and shape an ambitious global agenda for using the gcm to reduce the human cost of current migration governance that it will incentivize right space national implementation the gcm in a sustainable way and it will expand space for migrants in policy development including by making a compelling case for their participation at all levels these are big asks but we think they're reasonable and we think they're attainable and we're glad to have heard some ideas towards them in the room this afternoon in a stakeholder meeting on the i am rf last month an advocate from national civil society asked how do we make sure this is not just an event in which member states arrive say three good things they did and then leave again we all need it to be more than that and this is clear from the challenges the pandemic has presented for migrants and for mobility which you've been discussing these last two days and we think the following steps can help make it more than that first to engage with this process fully and at the highest levels the i am rf can be part of improving migration governance but only if we engage with it as if it can to to make use of the time between now and the i am rf to listen and prepare locally nationally regionally and globally so that you can all come to the i am rf ready to articulate what is needed and how to get there and three to develop concrete commitments separately and jointly in advance at the i am rf and through the progress declaration the i am rf is a means to further the work towards the objectives that you set in your common agenda in the gcm it's not an end in itself and the more it's used to prompt national and regional action beyond the forum the more effective it will be so our question to those in the room and those on the panel if there's time to come back to them is what do you need from the um migration network and others to support you towards this thank you thank you so much for your contribution i don't see anyone else asking for the the floor uh i fully share your view that it cannot just be one event it needs to be a milestone in a process and in that sense we expect that the organization of the i am rf will allow different voices to come to the floor not just a pure traditional uh intergovernmental conference but a conference that is much more interactive when taking stock of what has been achieved but also in identifying what are the gaps and when it comes to identify the gaps it's very important that those who have overcome those gaps come forward with proposals about the good practices that can be implemented and of course desirably commitments to achieve more but this is very general then we need to translate this into more concrete steps and that's what we are going to be engaged in doing in the next few months before the i am rf in my next year so having come to the end and i see the clock i guess we are all exhausted i will be very brief in my concluding remarks the first one to thank you for your engagement for your contributions and i can tell you what this is not to pay lip service to the usual things that you say on these moments we have learned a lot we ourselves i hope that you go out of this room also fully aware that it has been enriching and enriching discussion that we had today and that you leave the room with more questions that when you come in because if that is the case this means that this i i dm is successful because our joint endeavor is to find answers to the questions that we have in front of us and let me just find and align five of them the first one is that i believe that everybody recognize that there is a need for an integrated approach for future else emergency preparedness and its impact in border management in the post pandemic world we are not yet out of the pandemic there will be other pandemics and we need to learn the lessons because this pandemic we have confronted it on a crisis mode but now we need to recognize that there is the necessity of being prepared and the preparation means involving the all of government and all of society in the necessary coordination at national level between countries and sectors of the economy between national and local authorities and also at un level between un agencies and to be better prepared we need to be more accurate with the data that we collect there are a lot of data that we have collected during this pandemic that now needs to be made available and be worked on so that we can improve our preparation for the future because definitely there is no global recovery without relaunching global mobility but the way we relaunch global mobility will have to be highly sensitive to health criteria and that challenge is confronting us not just in the migration field migration is only part of the story but more broadly in terms of relaunching global mobility at large secondly I would like to emphasize once again that I believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities and along with the exacerbation of inequalities we need to make sure that the recovery and the way we deal with recovery does not exacerbate discrimination stigmatization or inequality or that recovery might bring along the infringement of human rights that's why it is so important as we have seen to guarantee access to healthcare services and social services in general for migrants not just in countries of destination but also in the entire migratory trajectory my third take is that I would like to recall that migrants have been in the forefront of the COVID-19 response as providers of services acting as essential workers delivering health care food sanitation services elderly care and more much more but at the same times we have seen in a number of places more discrimination more eight speech more racist and xenophobia behaviors and I do believe that we need to make it clear that migrants need to be fully included in the national vaccination plans because the if they were there on the front line in the face the case the pandemic it is essential that they are also beneficiaries of the social and health care measures that are taken by the by the countries through public policies and this approach to the access of migrants to social services should persist beyond the pandemic the pandemic as shown and maybe it's not very diplomatic if I recall you that when the general assembly adopted in September to 10 2019 a declaration of the universal health access the last point to be agreed was the very sort of issue of access of migrants to health care well during the pandemic we have seen that leaving migrants behind is a source of disruption of the entire community because no one is safe until everybody is safe and when it comes to the recovery I think that the debates in these two days have shown that we need to pay particular attention care and focus on the role of use and the role of women in building back better these concerns are not exclusive of migration policy but they are fully aligned with the common agenda that the secretary general of the United Nations has put forward a couple of weeks ago we also need to continue working further together with national and private actors on addressing the challenges related to migrant remittances given the critical role that migrant remittances play in securing livelihoods and well-being of the communities in the countries of origin and as it has been said also today remittances resisted to the pandemic in a remarkable way the drop of 2.4 percent worldwide is much significant for those who benefit from the remittances but if you compare the drop of 2.4 percent in remittances with the drop of 30 percent in foreign direct investment you will see that even in times of stress and strain migrants have kept their engagement in sending back home money for their families but for that to continue is absolutely necessary that they have work and social protection in the countries of destination well ladies and gentlemen as the last panel has emphasized when we are looking ahead at the MRF next year I think that this session has been extremely helpful to us so that we can start preparing for the event next spring and that's why I will persist with my idea that we should organize the next IDM in the February 2022 so that we can incorporate in our dialogue and in our debate the report that the Secretary General is going to publish by that time but also simultaneously the outcome of the different regional reviews that have been taking place all the discussions the preparatory discussions that we the network will promote until February next year and trying to build as much as possible stock taking exercise but a future forward-looking exercise identifying what are the challenges all challenges new challenges what are the gaps and how to fill them so that's the challenge for the next IDM and I was one I want once more to thank your contribution and wish you a wonderful weekend and looking forward to meet you in our next IDM spring next year in the run up to the International Migration Review Forum thank you so much