High-Level Meeting on the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants: One Year On

UN Photo/Ariana Lindquist. Secretary-General António Guterres (centre), speaks at an event on New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants – One Year On, a special event held on the margins of the General Assembly's annual general debate.   Also pictured: Louise Arbour (right), Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration, and Miroslav Lajčák (left), President of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants – One Year On event.  

UNHCR and the Office of the UN Special Representative for International Migration hosted an anniversary event for the New York Declaration.  

Wednesday 20 September 2017 from 09:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Secretariat Building – Conference Room 7, United Nations Headquarters, New York

The event marked the first anniversary of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and served as a high-level briefing on the global compact on refugees and the global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration. 

Speakers included:

The event was moderated by the UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Alison Smale.

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You can rewatch the event on UN Web TV

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