On December 10-11, a new migration pact was adopted at the UN conference in Morocco. The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, on which the UN has been working for one and a half years, was officially adopted in Marrakech, despite a barrage of criticism. On Sunday, the peaceful 'March Against Marrakesh' - organised in Brussels to denounce the UN's Global Compact on Migration - resulted in clashes with police. Russia believes that the current complicated migration situation is largely a result of irresponsible interference into the internal affairs of sovereign states of Middle East and North Africa. Therefore, Moscow is opposed to sharing the burden of hosting forced migrants between the countries that have nothing to do with the causes of a mass exodus.
Commenting on the document signed in Marrakesh, the member of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director of the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology of the RAS Vladimir Zorin recalled how the Framework Convention on National Minorities was adopted inn Russia: “This problem was, is and will be in any multinational country. But we adopted this document with certain reservations concerning the protection of the rights of the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic States, as well as a number of other points. The Compact on Migration adopted in Morocco is a good thing. The UN cannot stand aside from the process of preparing some kind of framework approach to migration issues. Migration, like inflation, is an inevitable process of the society's development. We can't escape from migration now. There are experts who say that this is a new stage of the great transmigration of peoples. Indeed, the masses are huge. And this process will intensify, because there are huge poor regions, and there are much more prosperous regions."
According to Zorin, prosperous regions have three problems that cannot be solved without migrants: "The first is labor resources. Machines cannot replace people yet. Cheap labor is needed for non-prestigious jobs. Students do not want to be courtyard cleaners or wash dishwashers not just in Moscow This is a global and European trend. The second problem is demography. The third problem is security. And the problem of security has arisen in recent years.
All countries concerned with migration face these problems. No European country can ignore demography and security issues. On the one hand, it seems that these processes are mainstream, but on the other hand, each country starts to search for some methods or models for resolving the issue on its own. This is particularly evident in the example of Europe, the U.S. policy also shows a completely new model of migration now. Multiculturalism generated by migration is facing new challenges.
