UUI, Alm.del - 2017-18 - Bilag 7: Invitation til konference: Promoting better regional cooperation towards smart and humane migration across the Mediterranean (16-17 November 2017, Valletta, Malta)

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Promoting better regional cooperation towards smart and humane

migration across the Mediterranean

Conference for parliaments from the European Union and from the Mediterranean region organized jointly by

the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Parliament of Malta and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean

16-17 November 2017, Grand Hotel Excelsior - Grand Ballroom, Valletta (Malta)

Mr. Orla Hav, MP

President of the Danish Inter-

Parliamentary Group

International Department (IPU-Sekr)

Folketinget - Christiansborg Slot

DK-1240 COPENHAGEN K

(Denmark)

Geneva, 8 September 2017

Dear Mr. President,

The Parliament of Malta, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Parliamentary Assembly

of the Mediterranean (PAM) are pleased to invite you to the above-mentioned

Conference,

which will take place from 16 to 17 November 2017 in Valletta, Malta.

In recent years, a growing number of people have made their way to Europe across the

Mediterranean to flee on-going conflicts and repression or seek a livelihood in the absence of

any economic opportunities in their countries. The magnitude and urgency of the current

situation requires long-term measures to ensure that migration is governed in a fair, smart and

humane way, in keeping with the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this context, parliaments and their members have a critical role to play in adopting adequate

legislation, in ensuring that effective policies are in place and implemented and in mobilizing

public support for such actions. The Conference will explore what this means concretely for

receiving, transit countries and countries of origin. It will identify steps that the parliaments of

those countries can take, including through stronger regional and cross-regional coordination

and cooperation, to help ensure fair, smart and humane migration. The outcome of the

conference is also expected to be a parliamentary contribution to the negotiation of a Global

Compact for safe, orderly and regular migration that will take place at the United Nations

between February and July 2018.

./.

cc:

Ms. Mette Vestergaard, Secretary of the

Danish Inter-Parliamentary Group

[email protected];

[email protected]

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We sincerely hope that your Parliament will be represented at the conference by a delegation

not exceeding five persons in total. In keeping with IPU’s and PAM’s practice, each delegation

should include both female and male members of parliament and reflect the political spectrum

represented in parliament. The designated members of your delegation should ideally be

directly involved in the discussion of migration issues in your parliament.

The provisional programme, practical information note, hotel reservation form and conference

registration form are hereto attached. They are also available online at

http://www.ipu.org/strct-

e/futrmets.htm.

We kindly request participants to complete and return the registration and hotel reservation

forms by

15 October

at the latest.

We look forward to your parliament’s participation in this important event.

Yours sincerely,

Martin Chungong

Secretary General of the

Inter-Parliamentary Union

Dr. Angelo Farrugia

Speaker of the

Parliament of Malta

Amb. Sergio Piazzi

Secretary General of the

Parliamentary Assembly

of the Mediterranean

Encl.:

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Provisional programme

General information

Registration form

Hotel reservation form