António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres: Make migration legal and structured
On June 21, 2016, RIAC Program Manager Elena Alekseeenkova attended a Valdai Discussion Club event with António Guterres, a UN Secretary-General candidate, UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2005-2015 and Portuguese prime minister in 1995-2002. Mr. Guterres presented his vision of the origins and ways to overcome the global migration crisis, and then answered numerous questions on migration, which he sees as a natural and inevitable process that can be hardly blocked. What the states can do is improve the relevant regulation mechanisms and make the process legal and streamlined. Europe requires clear-cut resettlement programs in ...