The UN General Assembly (UNGA) will convene a high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants on 19 September, 2016 in New York where Iran’s Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli is also scheduled to deliver a speech.
The high-level summit will be held immediately prior to the general debate of the 71st session and its main objectives include identifying how large movements of refugees and migrants can be harnessed in support of sustainable urbanization as well as to review innovative design and planning practices that can address the critical challenges for refugees and migrants, while insuring social cohesion and equitable access to services, housing and livelihoods.
The Iranian interior minister will be accompanied by Babak Dinparast, Iran's Deputy Interior Minister for Coordinating Economic Affairs and Regional Development and Head of Information and International Affairs as well as Salman Samani, Deputy Interior Minister for Parliamentary Affairs.
Ahmad Mohammadifar, the Director-General of the Interior Ministry's Foreign Nationals and Immigration Department, is also slated to deliver a speech at one of the event’s six roundtables entitled ‘global compact for responsibility sharing for refugees; respect for international law’.
Iran is one of the countries with the highest number of refugees, hosting millions of refugees mainly from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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