Colombia will lead a US initiative known as the Los Angeles Declaration, which aims unify migration management on the continent, a White House official reported in a call with reporters.
(See: Panama and Colombia agree to advance their joint strategy against irregular migration).
The project, to which 22 countries in the region have signed up, seeks that the different governments respond in a way “coordinated“and exchange data on migratory flows that cross their territories.
Specifically, the Colombian Government will be in charge of a secretariat to “institutionalize efforts” of the countries that signed the declaration, adopted at the Summit of the Americas in 2022, reported President Joe Biden’s advisor, Marcela Escobari.
The next meeting of foreign ministers of the countries that are part of the initiative will also take place in Colombia, Escobari announced, but did not give a specific date.
(See: The key points of the migration agreement developed by Colombia and Germany).
Added to this is that, on Wednesday, September 25, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that his country will allocate a new allocation of 685 million dollars to help Latin American and Caribbean countries welcome migrants passing through their territories.
The announcement came after a meeting of foreign ministers within the framework of the UN summit in New York.
Blinken detailed that the new funds include $369 million to help refugees and vulnerable migrants in their host countries, as well as 228 million dollars in food assistance for Venezuelans displaced in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
(See: This is the new border control system of the European Union).
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With this new contribution, Blinken said, the United States has invested more than $1.2 billion in 2024 to advance the Los Angeles Declaration, signed in 2022 by twenty countries that committed to cooperating to stop irregular migration and expand routes. legal for migrants.
(See: ‘If countries prepare, Venezuelan migration can be positive’).
EFE
