71/1 GA
71
Session
| Draft symbol | A/71/L.1 |
|---|---|
| Adopted symbol | 71/1 |
| UN Document | 71/1 ↗ |
Vote Consensus — A/71/PV.3
Speeches following this vote (20)
The President
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 70/290, I now give the floor to Mr. Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group.
Mr. Jim Yong Kim
It is a great honour for me to be here and to address the General Assembly. I would like especially to thank Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for his leadership over 10 years and for convening this summit on refugees and migration. His call for international action to address the challenges and opportunities of large movements of people and to uphold the safety and dignity of refugees and migrants w…
The President
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 70/290, I now give the floor to Mr. Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Mr. Grandi
Listening to refugees is a sobering experience. Last week, the number of refugees uprooted from South Sudan in less than three years surpassed the 1 million mark. I met some of them three weeks ago. They told me harrowing stories of loss, of family, of home, of homelands and of hope. I have heard similar stories in many other countries I have visited this year. Therefore, this summit could not co…
The President
Before proceeding to the next speaker, we will now begin the ceremony for the signing of the agreement concerning the relationship between the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration, which will take place pursuant to resolution 70/296.
I now invite to the table the Secretary-General and the Director General of the International Organization for Migration.
The President
We have now concluded the ceremony for the signing of the agreement in accordance with resolution 70/290. I congratulate the United Nations family and the International Organization for Migration. This is an important moment as we ensure that the United Nations system is fully integrated to advance a comprehensive and coordinated response for the implementation of the New York Declaration for Ref…
Mr. Swing
The signing of this historic agreement brings the leading global migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), into the United Nations and culminates a 65-year relationship with the Organization. For the very first time in 71 years, the United Nations now has a migration agency. This is a singular honour for our organization and a genuine success for migrants in particular…
Mr. Al Hussein
This should not be a comfortable summit. While the leadership of the Secretary-General, and his fine report (A/70/59), should
be acknowledged by all, as well as the admirable efforts by Ireland and Jordan to achieve political consensus, this summit cannot be reduced to speeches and feel-good interviews, with a dash of self-congratulation — and then we move on.
When millions of people see freedo…
The Deputy Secretary-General
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Migration, Mr. Peter Sutherland, worked very hard to make this summit a reality. Unfortunately, he has taken ill and has not been able to travel to New York. He has asked me to convey the following message to the General Assembly.
“We are here today to take action together on one of the great issues of the twenty-first century, international…
Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka
It is an honour to address this plenary meeting as the 2016 Chair of the Global Migration Group. The year 2016 marks the Global Migration Group’s tenth anniversary, and it is at a crucial time. The Group has grown, both in size and relevance. Two additional members joined this month. I am equally pleased that the International Organization for Migration, one of the founding members of the Group, …
The President
In accordance with resolution 70/290, I now give the floor to Mr. Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Mr. Fedotov
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)stands in solidarity with all gathered here to promote justice and better protect vulnerable women, children and men on the move who are subjected to violence, abuse and exploitation. We cannot allow the biggest migration and refugee crisis since the Second World War to be exploited by criminals as a business opportunity.
In that respect, I wel…
The President
In accordance with resolution 70/290, I now give the floor to Mr. Mats Granryd, Director General of the Global System for Mobile Communications Association, as a representative of the private sector.
Mr. Granryd
It is a true privilege to join all gathered here today as we work together to address the urgent issue of the large movement of refugees and migrants at a time when the world looks to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the road map to our future and that of our children.
For those here who are unfamiliar with the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), our associa…
The President
In accordance with resolution 70/290, I now give the floor to Ms. Eni Lestari Andayani Adi, Chairperson of the International Migrants Alliance, who will speak as a member of the migrant community.
Ms. Adi
I am honoured to stand before the General Assembly to
speak on behalf of 244 million migrants from all over the world who cannot be here today.
After years of voicelessness and invisibility, we migrants have finally been welcomed here to speak for ourselves. We are the people who have been denied the future, the rights and the dreams we used to imagine for ourselves. When I was young, I dreamed…
The President
In accordance with resolution 70/290, I now give the floor to Mr. Mohammed Badran of Syrian Volunteers in the Netherlands, who will speak as a representative of civil society.
Mr. Badran
I speak today on behalf of every young refugee in the world.
In preparing for today’s summit, I received many messages from refugees both in Europe and in Syria, desperate to be heard. It would take too long to read them all out, but there is one message that I have to share. It is from Zuhir, a Palestinian Syrian, stateless and stuck like me, with no possibility of escaping the war. He said,
“…
The President
In accordance with resolution 70/290, I now give the floor to Ms. Nadia Murad Basee Taha of the organization Yazda, who is also the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking and who will speak as a member of a refugee community.
Ms. Murad
I am a survivor of the Yazidi genocide, now a refugee. I was a villager who found herself torn from her life of freedom and dreams to become a slave, without hope, under the rule of the so-called Islamic State. When Da’esh attacked us they killed men and enslaved women. They killed my mother, along with 80 older women, because they did not want to use them for sexual enslavement. They killed six …
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