6.07.2006
U.N. Chief Backs Growth of Global Migration (NYTimes.com)
By WARREN HOGE
Published: June 6, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 — Secretary General Kofi Annan said today that the rapid growth in global migration should help, not harm, all countries, but that broad international cooperation would be necessary to assure that.
"We now understand better than ever before that migration is not a zero-sum game," Mr. Annan said. "In the best cases, it benefits the receiving country, the country of origin and migrants themselves."
Mr. Annan made his comments in a report he delivered to the General Assembly on migration and development, subjects which will be a focus of the annual gathering of heads of state at the United Nations in September.
The report noted that alarm over the growing numbers of migrants had cast the issue in a negative light but that the emphasis was misplaced.
"We think that societies don't ask themselves enough what they would do without migrants," said Hania Zlotnik, director of the United Nations Population Division.
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Published: June 6, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, June 6 — Secretary General Kofi Annan said today that the rapid growth in global migration should help, not harm, all countries, but that broad international cooperation would be necessary to assure that.
"We now understand better than ever before that migration is not a zero-sum game," Mr. Annan said. "In the best cases, it benefits the receiving country, the country of origin and migrants themselves."
Mr. Annan made his comments in a report he delivered to the General Assembly on migration and development, subjects which will be a focus of the annual gathering of heads of state at the United Nations in September.
The report noted that alarm over the growing numbers of migrants had cast the issue in a negative light but that the emphasis was misplaced.
"We think that societies don't ask themselves enough what they would do without migrants," said Hania Zlotnik, director of the United Nations Population Division.
(More ... U.N. Chief Backs Growth of Global Migration - New York Times) ¶ 08:17
