{"id":337696,"date":"2017-12-03T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T08:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-pulls-us-out-of-un-pact-on-migration\/"},"modified":"2017-12-03T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T08:27:38","slug":"presstv-trump-pulls-us-out-of-un-pact-on-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-pulls-us-out-of-un-pact-on-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump pulls US out of UN pact on migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has pulled the country out of a UN compact aimed at improving\u00a0migrant and refugee situations around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US mission to the global body announced the decision on Saturday, saying the Trump administration deemed the pact &#8220;inconsistent&#8221; with its policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the US Mission to the United Nations informed the UN Secretary-General that the United States is ending its participation in the Global Compact on Migration,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the compact is a non-binding political declaration that was unanimously adopted by the 193 members of the UN General Assembly in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Under the compact, the members pledged to uphold the rights of refugees, help them resettle and insure they have access to education and jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New York Declaration contains numerous provisions that are inconsistent with US immigration and refugee policies and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/03\/544308\/US-UN-MIGRATION-REFEUGEES\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has pulled the country out of a UN compact aimed at improving\u00a0migrant and refugee situations around the world. The US mission to the global body announced the decision on Saturday, saying the Trump administration deemed the pact &#8220;inconsistent&#8221; with its policies. &#8220;Today, the US Mission to the United Nations informed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}