Technical meeting to seek solutions to the Venezuelan immigration situation

With the purpose of reaching a consensus on regional migration policies regarding the Venezuelan crisis situation, the National Director of Migration, Horacio García, participated in the opening of the International Technical Meeting on Human Mobility with representatives of UNHCR, IOM and officials from countries of America.
“Argentina was a master in the matter of guiding and carrying out the task of combining the efforts of those who came to work, produce and study with the development desires of an incipient nation. Among all countries we have the opportunity – in the face of this enormous challenge that the forced displacement of the brothers from Venezuela implies – to once again put talent in a region that is undoubtedly the most hospitable in the world. Let us agree among ourselves with the elements that constitute our union: which is dialogue and commitment,” stated the head of the DNM, accompanied by the director of International Affairs, Osmar Alza.
Heading the international meeting together with García, Ambassador Luis María Sobron, General Director of Consular Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, said that “the Venezuelan process in the region has acquired much larger dimensions than those it had when the Ecuadorian government summoned several of us. countries in the region last year. We have found several solutions. Our goal is to continue sitting at the same table to combine different efforts for those people who have had to leave everything they had in their hands.”
For his part, the Regional Representative of UNHCR, Juan Carlos Murillo, presented a detailed report on the historical and current situation of the Venezuelan diaspora.
Meanwhile, Jorge Valles, from the IOM, who is deputy coordinator of the Regional Platform for Interagency Coordination of the Response to Venezuelans (R4V), thanked with “pride and admiration” the Argentine government for organizing this event, as well as the “Ecuador and the participating governments for initiating this technical process to find and provide solutions to problems and issues essential to the access to rights of the Venezuelan population on the continent.” He added that the so-called Quito Process, which Argentina now hosts and leads, constitutes an extraordinary opportunity to advance the agenda of its Action Plan, where the issue of documentation has always been a priority unanimously emphasized by all the governments of the region”.