Bulgarian government said on Wednesday, 5 December 2018 that the country will not sign the Global pact for Safe and Orderly Migration, saying that joining the pact would contradict Bulgaria’s national interest. The agreement (not legally binding) was approved in July by all 193 member nations except the United States, which backed out last year December. According to the report, Bulgaria would not send representatives to the December 10-11 conference in Marrakesh (Morocco) where the pact will be formally adopted. Other countries that rejected the pact includes Hungary, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Australia.
The global pact addresses issues on how to protect migrants, how to integrate them into new countries and how to return them to their home countries. Bulgaria which has border with Turkey has built a barbed-wire fence along its border to keep migrants from entering the country.
Source: Viewers Corner News.
