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MIGRATION CONFERENCE MISSES KEY ISSUES.

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By Isis Campos, Inforpress Centroamericana

[The author is a staff writer for Inforpress Centroamericana, published in Guatemala]

The VII Regional Conference on Migration (RCM) convened in Antigua, Guatemala, on May 28-31. The agenda focused narrowly on terrorism, leaving those participants who had come to discuss questions of migrant's rights and other legal issues chagrined by meeting's end.

The RCM organization sets the agenda based on input from the delegates. The degree to which some members sought to derail the domination of the anti-terrorism agenda is reflected in a paragraph from the Declaration of the Regional Network of Civil Organizations (RNCOM), dated May 30.

"Therefore, we would also like to make sure that the Agenda and RCM Action Plan keep the emphasis on the nature, characteristics, determinants, and consequences of the migratory processes. We urge the governments participating in this Conference to deal with the subject of migration from a wide and integrated perspective, without losing track by subordinating their priorities in favor of subjects of other public policies agendas, as is the case of national security, the fight against terrorism, combat against drug dealing, among others. An inherent...

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