Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the European Parliamentplenary session on the Progress on the UN Global Compact for safe, regular and orderly migration and UN Global Compact on refugees.
Strasbourg, 13 March 2018
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Thank you Mr President.
On the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees, let me start with a good news, a good story for once; a little, big European achievement of the last few months. You might remember, last December I came to Strasbourg and here, in this hemicycle we talked about detention centres in Libya. I took in front of you, and most of all, in front of all those people who are suffering inside these detention centres in Libya, the commitment to bring back to their homes 15.000 migrants from within the detention centres to their countries or origin, in a safe manner with Assisted Voluntary Returns, made with our assistance, through the IOM [International Organisation for Migration].
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