That's a great question.
The process in coming to the text of the UN global compact has two parts. There was annex 1 in the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants from September 2016, and that adds fairly generic definitions of who is a refugee and what have you, mostly in line with the 1951 convention. It started the clock on a two-year process of consultations in Geneva on a program of action for implementing annex 1, the CRRF.
It was in those conversations that—