(MENAFN) The Czech Republic has joined the increasing ranks of European Union countries to reject a pact of the United Nations that aims to adjust the treatment of migrants worldwide.
The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved in July by all 193 member nations except the United States, which withdrew last year, following the biggest arrival of migrants into Europe since World War Two, many fleeing conflicts and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and beyond.
The Czech cabinet however, voted early on Wednesday not to sign the accord.
Government officials said the pact does not sufficiently differentiate between legal and illegal migration - a concern shared with the right-wing governments of Hungary and Austria who have also said they will not sign it at a ceremony in Morocco in December.
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