A/RES/71/280
United Nations
Distr.: General
17 April 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda items 13 and 117
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 April 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.58)]
71/280. Modalities for the intergovernmental negotiations of the
global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 71/1 of 19 September 2016, entitled “New York
Declaration for Refugees and Migrants”, and the launch of a process of
intergovernmental negotiations leading to the adoption of a global compact for safe,
orderly and regular migration at an intergovernmental conference to be held in 2018,
as well as its decision to work towards the adoption in 2018 of a global compact on
refugees, and noting that the two processes are separate, distinct and independent,
Recalling also that the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration
would set out a range of principles, commitments and understandings among
Member States regarding international migration in all its dimensions, make an
important contribution to global governance and enhance coordination on
international migration, present a framework for compr ehensive international
cooperation on migrants and human mobility, deal with all aspects of international
migration, including the humanitarian, developmental, human rights -related and
other aspects of migration, and be guided by the 2030 Agenda for Sustai nable
Development 1 and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International
Conference on Financing for Development 2 and informed by the Declaration of the
High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development adopted in
October 2013, 3
Welcoming the agreement to bring the International Organization for
Migration, an organization regarded by its member States as the global lead agency
on migration, into a closer legal and working relationship with the United Nations as
a related organization, 4 and underlining its important role in jointly servicing the
negotiations by extending the technical and policy expertise required, leading to the
adoption of the global compact,
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1
Resolution 70/1.
Resolution 69/313, annex.
3
Resolution 68/4.
4
Resolution 70/296.
2
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