The UN General Assembly on Tuesday July 26,2016 unanimously adopted a resolution approving an agreement to make the International Organisation for Migration(IOM) part of the UN as a related organisation, underlining a closer legal and working relationship between them is needed “more than ever”.
“Migration is at the heart of the new global political landscape and its social and economic dynamics. At a time of growing levels of migration within and across borders, a closer legal and working relationship between the United Nations and IOM is needed more than ever,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement welcoming the Assembly’s decision on Monday July 25,2016
IOM, which assisted an estimated 20 million migrants in 2015, is an intergovernmental organisation with more than 9,500 staff and 450 offices worldwide.
Founded in the wake of the World War II to resettle refugees from Europe, the organisation celebrates its 65th anniversary in December 2016
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