 comments or questions and I don't have to break the ice because Sweden as the chair of the next global forum the GFMD has asked for the floor first so I will give the floor to Ambassador Eva Ackermann Borhev the chairperson of the GFMD. You have the floor. Thank you very much Mr. Chairman and I would be inclined in joining the A-men and now I have to maybe apologize in advance for becoming a little bit more practical in my remarks about three issues that I would like to take up as a follow-up to these excellent and inspiring presentations. I'd like to comment on very shortly on the outcome of the high-level dialogue regarding the issue of international governance on the post 2015 development agenda and the governance element of the work that we're doing there as well as also shortly touch on the global migration group and the global forum from a governance perspective. So as the chair of the global forum on migration and development Sweden was very encouraged by the high degree of common understanding of the importance of migration and development expressed at the meeting in New York last month. On the substantive discussions the Swedish chair was delighted to see the overwhelming support expressed for the inclusion of migration in the post 2015 development agenda as this is indeed also a main priority for the global forum program. We also noted the strong emphasis on the protection of human rights of migrants, the portability of skills and recognition of qualifications, migrants in crisis among other very important issues that were raised and that we are committed to follow up also in the global forum work stream. On the issue of governance I think that as you have pointed out there was no new institutional arrangements for the governance of international migration that were decided or came out of the high-level dialogue. Instead we will have to work with the existing structures and I am very optimistic that much can be done. As the global forum chair Sweden welcomes the very strong support expressed for the continued leadership of the special representative of the secretary general on migration Mr. Peter Sutherland to advance the global debate and improve our collective handling of the issues of migration and development. It's very positive that the secretary general tasked Peter Sutherland to convene regular meetings with the leadership of the global forum and the global migration group to identify shared priorities and obviously governments will continue to set the agenda for the state-led global forum but I believe that there is great scope for identifying shared priorities, capacity building needs and capacity building needs of governments and areas of cooperation between governments and the global migration group both in the collection of evidence base for the global forum meetings and in the voluntary follow-up of the global forum recommendations and outcomes. This can potentially be a very important step to continue the trust building exercise and to get away from the false dichotomy of being inside or outside the UN system or sometimes what is sometimes staged as an opposition between those who are for or against human rights or for and against economic and social development. With regard to the global migration group more specifically we saw that the high-level dialogue welcomed the initiative that the group has taken to strengthen its cooperation and coordination and I believe that further efforts can be made to improve the work of the group to strengthen coordination and synergies on migration and development. In this regard we appreciate the constructive efforts by IOM and we look forward to engaged with the incoming chair ILO to see how this progress can be furthered. We also support a more inclusive role of IOM in the global migration group in order to ensure stronger continuity and solid migration expertise across the chairmanship. Indeed the high-level dialogue also signal a strong recognition of the leadership of IOM in the field of migration. Now just a comment on the inclusion of migration in the post 2015 agenda as an important aspect also for policy coherence within the system. Sweden believes that this could contribute very greatly to governments and development actors efforts to plan for and act upon the opportunities and challenges that migration brings. In particularly we think that it could contribute to the collective efforts of the United Nations and other international organizations including IOM to bring migration into their analysis, planning and monitoring efforts at country level. In fact we believe this would generate more collaboration among the relevant agencies and I was very encouraged by the statement by the Deputy Secretary General Mr. Eliason when he was calling now also in this intervention to migration to be an integral part of the post 2015 development agenda. And in this regard I would also like to highlight that Sweden is working very in close cooperation with Peter Salladand when we are hosting a side event on this issue in New York on the 10th of December in partnership with the governments of Mexico, Bangladesh, Switzerland as well as the global migration group and the special representative and indeed he has already mentioned this event and we hope for great participation in that of course by all relevant actors. Mr. Chairman lastly to come to the global forum and I will not dwell on that but I would just like to raise the issue of the global forum also as a governance issue. We were encouraged of course by the Secretary General in introductory speech at the high level dialogue when he pointed out that many of the advances made since 2006 was a too great deal to be attributed to the climate of trust that has been established by the global forum. And of course we think that this is an issue that we should continue to discuss what is the relevance of the global forum in the future government governance puzzle to be laid. And of course one of the big important pieces of the puzzles are the regular meetings between the leadership of the global forum and the global migration group under the leadership of the special representative. So before closing I would like to extend the global forum chair's gratitude to the global migration group for its support to the GFMD process and to IOM in particular as the chair and as the host of the support unit for the global forum. We look very much forward to continue our common work and lastly of course I would like to point out that we see an urgency in the continuation of the debate on future governance of international migration and I cannot think of any better leaders for this debate than the gentleman on the podium here this morning. Thank you very much Mr. Chairman. Thank you thank you very much Ambassador and thank you also for the great work that Sweden is doing under your leadership to prepare us for the next global forum in the spring of this coming year. We look forward to continuing to try to support you in any way that you consider appropriate. I'd like to go on to the next speakers on the list but before I do so I want to recognize the presence of Mr. Guy Ryder the director general of the International Labor Organization our neighbor next door. Mr. Wright please if you're comfortable there fine we're also happy to have you join us on the podium. Thank you very much lovely to have you. Yeah we also have Mr. Sven Alkalage here from the UN Economic Commission for Europe who's already on the podium with us waiting for the next panel. I'm also my I have two more speakers right now on the list ICMC and UNDP so I think I see John are you there if so go ahead please you have the floor. Thank you chair the International Catholic Migration Commission we like to say amen we're fairly fairly good at it I think. So ICMC at the invitation of Mexico, Switzerland, Mauritius and Sweden has been organizing global civil society global forum these past recent years with the officer the president of UN General Assembly asking us to do a similar role at the high-level dialogue this year so if you allow me I'll just speak broadly as a representative of civil society to the issue of the high-level dialogue and action forward. We agree and actually are quite stunned that the big story at this high-level dialogue was strong convergence on so many important issues across the board. We saw civil society's five-year eight-point plan converge with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's eight points Peter Sutherland's 10 points IOM's six points and crucially the high-level dialogue outcome government declaration and we've prepared on the back tables a one-page matrix it's just a checklist of that convergence it's quite quite impressive. Now that that convergence didn't happen however without leadership and co-leadership your institution Deputy Secretary General Eliason with the unsinkable Peter Sutherland your agencies Director General Swing and Rider among others your governments very much Mexico consistently also Sweden Switzerland the Philippines Turkey the Netherlands Bangladesh the US the EU Morocco Germany France others and civil society so just want to say thanks for that leadership but now the next step that we've been talking about so much here this week and another for with the first eye on the well-being of migrants their families and whole healthy societies we need the big houses the big houses of migrant origin transit and destination to assure assert leadership and where it makes sense co-leadership in particular IOM UNHCR UNDP ILO the High Commissioner for Human Rights UNICEF and UNODC a leadership and co-leadership that's appropriate to mission-driven issues connecting always but not getting bogged down in GMG or other inter-agency mechanisms unless the evidence shows they are effective or can be made so inter-agency consensus is not always a virtue surely convergence is enough and critical mass will do it the same is true for governments and civil society we are ready a civil society already working with you every day globally and on the ground and co-responsible with you that's why we admitted that the eight points would take five years and collaboration we have been struck chair we struck this week with your wisdom and determination director general saying again and again we've got to go forward the issues of pressing will move together with others when we can but we can't wait indeed that reflects the urgency in the waters off Lampedusa but comparable suffering and tragedies 24 365 on other sea and desert crossings while we've been meeting this week another boat went down this time from Haiti another 30 drowned 100 reportedly hanging on to the side of the boat for days millions of men women and children moved sold and trapped by human traffickers human being suffering by the millions at workplaces of all kinds including homes with some 50 million domestic workers most of whom are migrant women and the disaster of xenophobia and xenophobic genocide so to close if you allow civil society has three questions broadly to the un system and to iom first civil society asks what really about migrants not just in conflict and natural disaster situations but migrant victims of violence and trauma in transit second institutionally civil society asks we need more of un dp in these migration and development processes they're so good and who they've put there is so fine we need more second what is the plan for iom to give full consideration to a more formal and clear institutionalization of protection as a core mandate of its mission and work or the possibility to move from de facto to de jure part of the un family in language we know very well from these processes in recent years maximizing the positives and minimizing the negatives that might otherwise come with that and lastly civil society asks i think a question similar to what the sweetest chair of the gfmd was just speaking to towards how do we pick up at last and together the question of complementary global migration government governance which evidence-based and sensible to genuine state sovereignty rises to the challenges of globalization here civil society's sixth point for five years of work ahead of us all calls for quote redefinition of the interaction of international mechanisms of migrant rights protection which recognizes the roles of the gfmd and gmg albeit limited revives emphasis of the distinct mandate of the ilo for worker protection and more coherently aligns protection activity of the agencies i mentioned earlier these next five years we can together rediscover that the end to globalized indifference is localized response that guides repair of the whole system that's where we converge thank you thank you thank you very much very thoughtful presentation there i want to very appropriately now give the floor to the chair of the global forum in 2015 the distinguished delegate of turkey thank you very much we would like to thank deputy secretary general aderson and special representative satterland for sharing their valuable views with us actually my ambassador will be arriving very soon and delivering his statement after the high level part of the council actually we would like to emphasize that we attach importance to the integration of migration into post 2015 development agenda in this respect we will assume as ambassador swing said the chairmanship of the gfmd after sweden we hope that our work in this capacity will help us build further and successful work carried out by the old chairs of the gfmd i thank you thank you next speaker is the undp representative you have a floor spiring patience and i cannot but join in pleading of the former speakers thank you mr. director general distinguished delegates first i wish to congratulate the two keynote speakers on their important and inspiring presentation and i cannot but not join in the omen of former speaker i also wish to thank ion for its able leadership okay i'll try with this one and i will not repeat myself but thank you for giving me the floor mr. director general i wish to thank iom for its able leadership of the global migration group or which undp is a committed member undp welcomes the focus on concrete follow-up steps to the high level dialogue including the delivery of results against the secretary general's eight point action agenda as well as the close collaboration with the special representative of the secretary general the global forum and with civil society we welcome the constructive tone and outcomes of the high level dialogue discussions particularly the support expressed by member states for integrating migration into the post-2015 development agenda undp is contributing to the informal working group that supports mr. sutherland and interested member states on this topic together with iom we have been early proponents of joint gmg involvement and positioning to promote migration in the post-2015 process we see the post-2015 agenda as an opportunity to achieve two things firstly a commitment to a global partnership approach to international migration that in the absence of global governance architecture would provide a guiding vision to the multiple fora and processes that exist in this field secondly the post-2015 agenda is the chance to ensure that no person and no migrant is left behind a global commitment to addressing inequalities through the systematic disaggregation of development data and outcomes for vulnerable groups should go hand in hand with national and international commitments to monitor and improve the human development outcomes and rights of migrants and refugees everyone should have the right to live in dignity undp is working closely with iom and other gmg partners in supporting national and local governments in their efforts to mainstream migration into development planning improving capacities for data collection and analysis for monitoring of migration and development trends and the assessment of programs and policies emerge as consistent challenges and priorities our joint iom undp program on mainstreaming migration international development strategies is set to enter into a larger second phase next year with continued support from the swiss government it helps countries carry out situations situation assessments identifies policy priorities establishes establishes inclusive coordination mechanism and develops integrated migration and development strategies as expressed in a corporate memorandum of understanding we are working with iom in a range of other areas indeed around the world undp's engagement on migration is always in cooperation with others we will continue to bring our development expertise and networks to these partnerships and we look forward to playing a continuously active role in a more outcome-oriented gmg in support of the gfmd process and to highlight migration in the post 2015 discussions thank you thank you very much i believe we've exhausted the list of speakers now unless i see the signs otherwise if i may perhaps i could call on srsg southerland to any comments on these presentations and maybe then ask the deputy secretary general to close the session thank you sir i've very little more to say uh because i think that there appears to be a widespread consensus from what we have heard about the importance of the agenda for the future i would simply underline two points that have come through first of all the global forum remains a very important part of the process as has been noted that is brought about a growing consensus amongst the member states here secondly the challenges are increasingly evident in the developed world in terms of a lack of understanding of the importance and positive value of migration as opposed to the more obvious effects of a populist response which is negative to the whole principle of migration the clear evidence which is unambiguous and general that migration actually helps economic development in the countries of destination is something that governments have to advocate they have to come forward with their arguments domestically in order to contest the negative and sometimes racist perceptions that have been generated in regard to migration in some areas and this is really what this whole process of dialogue evidence today evidenced in the high-level dialogue and evidenced in the GFMD is fundamentally about a recognition using the word reflected in the comments of the deputy secretary general in particular recognizing the dignity of man and the equality of man in broad terms the fundamental concepts which drove the creation of the united nations in the first instance and which is fundamental to civilization thank you very much if i may now turn to the deputy secretary general for to close out our session thank you thank you very much mr. chairman it's been a pleasure to be with you today i have very much treasured the comments made by my colleague and friend Peter Sutherland i think his important warnings about attitudes is very important are very important in the day and age when we see so many signs of dividing humanity and to us and them in different areas i have dealt the last one half year with several of the world conflicts and the elements of sectarian ethnic divides are extremely strong and unfortunately we see reflections of this also in this debate in the world around the world we have to shift the attitude to migrants from this negative angle that very often is the case into a positive one because it has such deep implications we have to never we must never depart from the basic premise that all our work is based on the equal value of all human beings if we start to stray from that on one aspect we are on a slippery slope so therefore i take very seriously that that that warning and i liked the expression used by the representative of civil society when he talked about getting away from global indifference if you should move from global indifference to global engagement to even global solidarity on the 2015 which is also within my responsibility under the secretary general i i think it's the work ahead is going to be very much in the hands of member states your colleagues in new york will be very busy and ministries will pass on instructions to their colleagues negotiating in new time i hope also that your governments will see the post 2015 development agenda in a wider perspective you need to involve businesses of finance energy agriculture environment it's an concern for all parts of the government and of course ministers of migration i think the the agenda will be in two parts one is that we unfortunately will have unfinished business of the present mgs let us not forget that we we have almost two years left to finish the present the achievement is spelled out in the present goals and we have made progress on some counts like education so very very encouraging development in that area but then there is there are areas where we are making far less progress i can just mention two areas one is maternal health and the second one is sanitation huge gap between realities and the goals so we have unfinished business to do the second area where migration comes in is to adapt to what i would call the new global landscape we have a new global landscape in so many regards we have the enormity of of migration as compared to past history we have the enormity of urbanization 60 percent of humanity will live in cities in the next four five years we have unfortunately also other phenomena the the role of organized crime in today's world we have used unemployment which i hope is not systemic i hope that guy writer will perhaps give us some more hopeful sides on that but it looks very bad and it has enormous implications doesn't it on social and political cohesion in societies we have a wonderful rise in the role of women in the world which unfortunately it has not been the case in past history so here we have a number of areas where we have to adapt in such a way that united nations in my case and other international organizations iom and others will have to be relevant in this new global landscape and in many of these areas that i just mentioned we do have yes organizations dealing with it but we need i think more of cohesion more of cooperation more of dynamics between the different actors in this new global landscape and i think a great challenge for the negotiators on the post-2015 development agenda will be to make sure this new global landscape enters the the discussions the discourse that is necessary if we are to have a realistic road ahead on the period from 2015 to 2030 and i for one believe very much that migration is an indispensable part of that debate but it is very much in the hands of member states so it is for you to communicate to your governments to your colleagues in new york i guess where the final negotiation will take place probably in the spring of 2015 preceded of course by the work done now by this special working group on sustainable development goals which will finish their preparatory work in february and then go into a more active negotiation phase until next fall but i think there will be another negotiation closer to 2015 and that's where i hope that we have all contributed to this wider debate where we reflect the new global landscape and show that we as international organizations can prove that we can play an effective role and that we by that can say to the world that international cooperation is important and relevant if we don't pass this grade if we don't do this then we feed the tendencies that peter and others have mentioned here because there will be those who say well international organizations cannot deliver let's look inward let's find our own solutions and that would be very dangerous in today's world where i think international cooperation is an absolute necessity i would say i would go as far as to say in today's global world global community international cooperation international solutions to these global issues whether it is migration or climate change whatever the international solutions are in fact in the national interest international solutions in today's world are basically in the national interest we have a long way to go to reach full understanding of that but the moment we do you can imagine how much easier things will be in parliamentary debates with the reflections from editorial writers and public opinion but i think it's basically true and relatively easy to prove so here is the role of advocacy that was mentioned earlier by both still and peter i think is to be taken very seriously we have to prove the point that international solutions are necessary but that they're also basically in the national interest thank you very much thank you very much i think that we are concluding not only on time but with an abundance of inspiration and encouragement taking heart from what's come out of the high-level dialogue and taking a vision forward given to us both by these wonderful interventions today by our two speakers here i would like to thank you both very much for the insights your wise counsel and and pointing us in the right direction here because we're clearly at a at on the cusp of something new here and getting ourselves lined up for this new global landscape we since you are joining us today and we had their report on tuesday we have outlined a five-year program under the title of continuity coherence and change and i think that's all been covered in your remarks we continue to do those things which have worked well for us and we try to increase the total amount of the degree of cooperation in the international community and then look for ways to innovate to get ourselves much more in line with the the new global landscape and i think the precautions that the srsg has laid out today need to be of concern to all of us because there is i'm sorry to say not a lot of political courage out there on the issue of migration it doesn't easily bring in votes and we're going to have to do a job of helping governments to find the courage to talk about the inevitability the necessity and the desirability of large-scale migration in our times so i believe there are a lot of elements left today for food for thought for all of us here both in terms of follow-up to the high-level dialogue and we cannot leave the declaration standing we now need to go to action and we will also look to the working group on iom un relationships and the 12-point strategy to give us further guidance for the way ahead and the changes we need to make because the ultimate success of the high-level dialogue is now going to depend on concrete action and if we don't go to action it will all probably have been somewhat in vain so i think that at one point or the other one of both of our speakers will have to leave us i think the deputy secretary general has to leave a little closer to noon but feel free to depart when you have to we'll we'll forget to see you leave but i know you have other obligations and i think that the srsg can stay with us for the next session and he has an obligation after that so if i may then just the segue