[Foreign Policy] Global Compact for Migration - liability

On 11 December, the "`Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration"' will be signed in Marrakech (Morocco). In doing so, the signatories commit themselves to promoting international migration. This is not about escape or asylum, this is a separate agreement, but to labor migration. Illegal migration is never mentioned in this UN migration agreement and it is not differentiated between them.

Throughout the text of the UN Migration Agreement, the word mandatory is on each page and about 300 times in the entire document. So the question is whether the UN migration agreement is legally binding. The scientific service of the German Bundestag has therefore had a legal assesment drawn up.

The Federal Government is aiming for a political, but not legally binding agreement. The migration pact and its contents are politically obligatory according to the scientific service of the Bundestag. Goals are set and resources are available to regularly review the implementation. The aim is not temporary protection, but a permanent settlement of migrants in Germany. Migrants could invoke the migration pact and sue its contents.

In German-speaking countries, there are at least two major and one public petitions to the UN migration agreement:

https://migrationspakt-stoppen.info/
https://www.abgeordneten-check.de/kampagnen/globalen-pakt-und-massenmigration-verhindern/startseite/
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2018/_11/_01/Petition_85565.mitzeichnen.html


[1] Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration:
https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180713_agreed_outcome_global_compact_for_migration.pdf
[2] Rechtsgutachten zum Migrationspakt:
https://www.bundestag.de/blob/557692/8d3c42d79eba902c13660271ba0a32f4/wd-2-052-18-pdf-data.pdf

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