Italy joins the group not signing UN migration compact

Italy’s Interior Minister said on Wednesday that his country will not sign the United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Morocco next month.

“Just like the Swiss, who carried forward the Global Compact up until yesterday and then said ‘everyone stop’, the Italian government will not sign anything and will not go to Marrakech,” Matteo Salvini said in the lower house of Italy’s Parliament.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told the government that the “The floor of parliament must debate it. The Italian government will allow parliament to decide”.

“The Global Migration Compact is a document that raises issues and questions that many citizens have strong feelings about,” Conte continued.

“Therefore, we consider it right to put the debate in parliament and subject any final decision on the outcome of that debate, as Switzerland has done.

“So the government will not participate in Marrakech, reserving the option to adopt the document, or not, only when parliament has expressed its opinion,” he added.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/breaking-italy-will-not-sign-un-migration-pact-interior-minister-salvini/