常驻联合国副代表王民大使在国际移民与发展高级别对话会上的发言

Statement by the Deputy Permanent Representative Ambassador Wang Min at the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development

主席先生，

Mr. President:

中国支持斐济代表“77国集团和中国”所做的发言。

China associates itself with the statement made by Fiji on behalf of the Group of 77 and China.

随着全球化和信息化的深入发展，国际移民流动日趋频繁，移民人数不断增长，目前已达2.32亿。移民与发展问题息息相关。联大再次就移民和发展问题举行高级别对话会，意义重大。

With the steady development of globalization and IT application, international migration has grown both in terms of frequency and in terms of the number of immigrants, reaching 232 million at present. Since migration and development are closely linked, it is of important relevance that the GA is once again holding this high-level dialogue on migration and development.

应该看到,国际移民为经济、社会可持续发展做出了巨大贡献，既缓解了当今世界许多国家的人口老龄化问题，每年还创造了超过4000亿美元的侨汇，对世界经济发展、消除贫困、实现千年发展目标起到重要作用。另一方面，伴随着移民大潮，部分国家反移民情绪发酵，非法移民、人口贩运等跨国犯罪现象有增无减，移民的就业、住房、教育、卫生等基本权益难以得到保障，生存与发展仍面临诸多挑战。此外，人才外流对来源国的经济社会可持续发展亦带来消极影响。

Indeed, international migration has made tremendous contributions to sustainable social and economic development. It has mitigated the problem of aging in many countries while generating over $400 billion in yearly remittance, thus contributing to world economic development, poverty eradication, and the achievement of the MDGs. On the other hand, together with the tides of migration, the world also witnessed the rise of anti-immigrant sentiments in some countries, growing transnational criminal activities such as illegal migration and human trafficking, inadequate guarantee for immigrants’ basic rights and interests in regard to employment, housing, education, and health, and numerous challenges to their survival and development. In addition, the brain drain also bears negatively on the sustainable economic and social development of countries of origin.