Chile GA

Chile- Policy Statement

Fellow delegates, we the Republic of Chile are grateful to take part of this year’s Model United Nations General Assembly. We hope to resolve these issues brought here today in a positive fashion to help improve the world in which we all live and participate each day. Immigrant issues, guest worker problems and human rights are at most significant to the Republic of Chile. South American borders become integrated through the Southern Common Market, and the trafficking of both drugs and people is a concern for the region. We signed an Association Agreement with the European Union (EU) and have accepted to join the organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which has helped keep our proficient status in Latin America. Anticipating the demographics of future flows will assist the country in developing a comprehensive policy that will benefit both migrants and nationals alike. We propose improvements in our country and others to modernize its immigration laws, to consider a comprehensive migration policy and border security. We as a country thrive on migration, as it is essential to our economic growth, and want to keep our alliance with EU strong and healthy. The Republic of Chile is in much interest to the issue of International Human Trafficking and foreign workers rights especially abusive work conditions. Chile is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women and children trafficked for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation and labor trafficking. In our country we have no law prohibiting all forms of human trafficking but there has been an effort to help decrease the criminal act. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) states that 87.7% of victims were brought to our country for labor and sexual exploitation. Women and underage children from our neighboring countries re bought into our country and forced to work. We do not condone this behavior in our country, viewing this type of crime as a violation of human rights, and have made efforts for elimination of human trafficking, We plea to the countries gathered here to help increase border security globally, and to provide aid to the victims of trafficking to decrease this violent crime.
Recognizing kidnapping for ransom on an international scale is important, Chile has not been as critically affected as other countries. Kidnapping for ransom is seen as a coercive act, which reflects poorly upon the country and region. In the past we have used diplomacy to help resolve international kidnapping for ransom, however have not set regulations concerning the issue. It wasn’t until recently that the use of children for ransom had taken its toll on our citizens. We recognize that in a course of action we must propose a solution for stronger border security, which supports our other concerns.
We the Republic of Chile would like to thank every country here today in this year’s General Assembly for allowing us to speak upon the behalf of our citizens. We are thankful to participate to help towards resolving global issues, and count on these solutions not only improving our country, but yours as well.