Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am not aware, because it's your diplomatic mission in New York that negotiates that, and it is the people who are posted at your mission there who will undertake those negotiations.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am not aware of that. So far it's been undertaken within existing resources. There have been no extra budgetary consequences of the process leading to the global compact.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I might, sir, you're absolutely right, and I'd like to call your attention to objective 2, paragraph 18(b), which actually in the final sentence does address questions of “rule of law and good governance, access to justice and protection of rights, as well as creating and main

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll give you an example in the Caribbean. If someone has worked in one country in the Caribbean for many years and contributed to its social security and health care systems, when they return to their home country, they will be able to take the value of that back through a state

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There are examples where that works already in some cases, largely negotiated as a matter of bilateral agreements between countries. In some regions of the world, it's undertaken on a regional basis.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they would take whatever the value is of their accumulated rights—for example, a pension. If you earned a pension, if you worked in a country for 10 years and contributed to the pension system, you would be able to take with you when you return, if there's an agreement betwee

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's challenging. It's a complicated area, because every country's national system is different. Finding ways to work portability between systems requires mechanisms to translate from one to the other. As I mentioned, the Caribbean, for example, where people tend to move around

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't think a global system is realistic anytime in the near future.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not necessarily. It talks about bilateral as well as regional agreements. Personally, and this is my own opinion, having seen it, I think it's not realistic to imagine a massive global system on this aspect anytime soon.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's specifically within the competence of the High Commissioner for Refugees. I would ask you to pose that question to them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Do you mean the global compact for refugees or the global compact for migration?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's quite a bit of discussion.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, but in the global compact for migration there is also recognition of the UN Secretary-General's decision to create a new coordination mechanism in the UN system on migration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Secretary-General has decided to create what is called a network on migration, which will have the International Organization for Migration, as the coordinator in the secretariat, bring the different parts of the UN system together to work in a more effective way to support m