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27
nations meet in Peru to discuss
int'l migration
Ministers from 27 nations met in
Lima, Peru's capital, on Monday
to discuss methods of
regularizing international
migration, Peru's Foreign
Ministry said in a statement.
The International Ministerial
Conference for Developing
Nations with International
Migrant Flows, aims to create
agreements and recommendations
together with developed nations
which receive the greatest
number of migrants, according to
the statement.
"Informality is one of the
central characteristics of
today's migration," Peru's
Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua
said in an opening speech. "And
for this reason thousands of men
and women from poor countries
are the object of ill-treatment,
abuse and illegal trafficking."
The conference, which ends on
Tuesday, has brought together
officials from Latin America,
the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and
east Europe -- the regions
witnessing a total emigrant flow
of more than 1 million people
each year.
The conference is expected to
reach an agreement called the
Lima Declaration, which will be
an important premise for a UN
migration and development
conference due in September in
New York.
Because of the large number of
emigrants from Latin America and
the Caribbean, some nations from
these regions receive as much as
10 percent of their gross
national product in remittances,
according to data from the
Inter-American Development Bank.
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