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In the autumn of 2005, the Chief, PRES offered the Applicant a telecommuting compact. On 1 November 2005, the Applicant asked whether it was necessary to amend the compact in the light of the “recommendation of the Medical Service”. The Chief, CMS replied that no amendment to the compact was necessary and that the Medical Service would resolve any problems on a case-by- case basis. (...) On 10 November 2005, the Applicant agreed to and signed the telecommuting compact for the period from 14 November 2005 to 12 May 2006.

The global compact was adopted at the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, held in Marrakech on 10 and 11 December. (...) Nasser Bourita, President of the Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which adopted the global compact. (...) The global compact for migration is a triumph of multilateralism.

Summary The report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled “United Nations corporate partnerships: the role and functioning of the Global Compact” (A/66/137 and Corr.1) makes a number of recommendations as to steps that could be taken by Member States, the United Nations Secretariat and the Global Compact Office with a view to increasing the effectiveness of the Global Compact initiative. (...) The report also anticipates a number of improvements that the Global Compact Board and the Global Compact Office were in the process of making during the period covered by the report or shortly thereafter. (...) Even use of the Global Compact logo is reserved for official purposes only by the Global Compact Office.

Arbaoui (Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law) said that, while the Convention and the Global Compact for Migration could be mutually reinforcing, there was a risk that the Global Compact would weaken the authority of the Convention because some States that had adhered to the Global Compact were using it selectively to justify restrictive policies. (...) Several of the Compact’s objectives referred to labour migration and decent work. (...) The Compact addressed many important issues that might be taken up in the general comment.

The "Palauan-American agreement" that runs afoul of the Palau Constitution is, in fact, an amalgam of four separate but interlocking provisions of the compact package: Section 311 of the compact; Section 312 of the compact; Section 314 of the compact; The radioactive agreement. (...) It follows that the whole compact ["any such agreement"] would be I .. . (...) There is no reference to a compact in article XIII, section 6. In so far as the compact encounters that provision, it appears necessary to vote only on those parts of the compact package that contravene it, not the compact as a whole.

.: Limited 16 December 2020 Original: English Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Asia-Pacific Regional Review of Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration Bangkok, 10–12 March 2021 Annotated provisional agenda The present document contains the provisional agenda for the Asia-Pacific Regional Review of Implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (section I) and the annotations thereto (section II). (...) Review of progress and challenges with regard to implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Asia and the Pacific, including the implications of the coronavirus disease pandemic. 3. (...) Review of progress and challenges with regard to implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Asia and the Pacific, including the implications of the coronavirus disease pandemic Documentation Review of progress and challenges with regard to implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Asia and the Pacific, including the implications of the coronavirus disease pandemic (ESCAP/GCM/2021/1) International migration, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (ESCAP/GCM/2021/2) Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: a synthesis of voluntary Global Compact reviews in Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP/GCM/2021/CRP.1) Implementing the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: summary of stakeholder consultations for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP/GCM/2021/CRP.2) Annotation The participants will review the progress made in the Asia-Pacific region in achieving the objectives of the Global Compact, taking into account its cross-cutting and interdependent guiding principles and the impacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and addressing the interlinkages ESCAP/GCM/2021/L.1 B20-00914 3 between the Global Compact and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In particular, the independent expert elaborated upon the notion and the operational aspects of the development compact. 4. The development compact fixes obligations at both the national and international levels. (...) The development compact should not be a step backwards from PRSPs in that PRSPs are expected to be locally owned while the development compact model requires the approval of the national development authorities. (...) DFID warned against the development compact being weaker than the PRSP process. The IMF was also unclear on the relationship between the development compact and PRSPs.

What does implementation of the Global Compact mean to the international community? (...) Though it calls for a 360-degree approach, the implementation of the Global Compact is not an even process and will mean different things to different States, a reality explicitly acknowledged in the Compact. (...) Approaches to the implementation of the Global Compact vary. Some countries have chosen to progressively incorporate Global Compact objectives into new legislation, policies and practice.

Note: all references to the compact of free association and sections (S-#-) refer to the compact of free association signed on 10 January 1986 in Koror, Palau, by President Lazarus Salii of Palau, and United States Ambassador Fred Zeder. (...) This is a new compact, and Palauan voters have the right to express their preference between this compact and another status. (...) When was the actual text of the compact made available to voters? Has the entire compact been translated or only the main text without the subsidiary agreements?

Country presence: Global Compact local networks ............ 98-107 20 D. (...) Evaluation of the Global Compact initiative ....................... 130-135 26 H. (...) AH2006/520/01-Performance Audit of the Global Compact Initiative. 10 A/RES/62/211 (2007). 11 Global Compact Annual Review 2008, page 8. 12 A/RES/64/223. 13 Global Compact brochure, available at www.unglobalcompact.org 14 See The Global Compact’s next phase, 6 September 2005. 6 Recommendation 1 The General Assembly should set a clear mandate for the Global Compact Office at its 66th session and request the Secretary-General to publish within one year a bulletin outlining its functions in accordance with the mandate entrusted to it. 19.