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<p>The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is a legally non-binding
document which will complement existing legal frameworks and foster stronger international
cooperation on migration – which is a shared, global issue.</p><p>Alongside the Global
Compact for Refugees, it will support the UK’s 3 Global Migration Principles set out
by the Prime Minister at UN General Assembly in 2016, namely: to acknowledge the right
of countries to control their borders; to improve how we distinguish between refugees
and economic migrants; and to ensure refugees claim asylum in the first safe country
they reach.</p><p>The UK welcomes the explicit commitment in the Compact for states
to uphold their national sovereignty and continue to set domestic migration policy.
We will therefore continue to control our borders and prevent irregular migration
to the UK.</p><p>By negotiating separate and distinct Global Compacts on Migration
and Refugees we have helped strengthen international recognition of the distinction
between the two, which will help ensure support is targeted to those in need and migration
is better managed. The Global Compact for Refugees supports the Prime Minister’s principle
that refugees should seek asylum in the first safe country they reach by promoting
greater support to hosting countries to protect and support refugees.</p>
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