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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 18:58
MP Madison: Estonia must abandon participating in UN migration agreement
"The
United States under the leadership of President [Donald] Trump is strengthening its sovereignty and blocking the
globalist agenda," Madison was quoted by party spokespeople as saying.
"Abandoning the migration agreement must also set an example to the
foreign policy of Estonia. Estonia alone decides what kind of migration policy
is in our interests, not the UN or a third party."
The Trump administration announced on Monday that
the United States is to quit participating in the UN migration agreement
as it is inconsistent and contradictory.
The New York Declaration was adopted at a refugee and
migration conference held in New York on September 19, 2016. With this, the
countries assumed the responsibility of strengthening positive contribution
that the migrants give to the economic and social development of the receiving
countries. The declaration also condemnded xenophobia against refugees and
migrants.
Madison said that the decision of the United States is
important for the whole world as it shows the United States' self-determination
capability as well as organizing independent migration policy.
Madison added that the agreement signed last year,
where the representatives of Estonia were the then president Toomas Hendrik Ilves and foreign minister Jurgen Ligi, has issued Estonia with the
responsibility of financing propaganda, in which economic migrants are shown in
a positive light and the spread of multiculturalism is promoted also in
Estonia.
"The New York Declaration may be inconsistent
with our Constitution, which regards Estonia as a nation state, as the policy
of the UN is clearly left-liberal and focused on the polarization of nation
states," Madison said.