[Politics] Ecuadorian government will announce this month its plan to regularize Venezuelan migrantsv

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The plan, which will seek to offer solutions "in the short and medium term", and not a "naturalization" in the long term, supposes a fulfillment of the electoral promise.

The Ecuadorian government plans to announce this month its regularization plan for Venezuelan migration, a project in which original countries and the United Nations have been involved to offer inclusive solutions to more than half a million people.

"We are a few days away from formally presenting the regulations worked not only internally and based on what President Guillermo Lasso governed the country, but precisely with the donor conference," the new Ecuadorian foreign minister told Efe, Juan Carlos Holguín.

 

The plan, which will seek to offer "in the short and medium term", and not a "naturalization" in the long term, supposes a fulfillment of the electoral promise that the president made to solve the humanitarian problem of hundreds of miles of migrants living in the country. Andean in the last five years.

According to Holguín, it is about "more than 500,000 people who are already stable in Ecuador without regularization and who want to make Ecuador their stable place."

The plan also had solutions to "almost 200,000 floating people going south," which has also required dialogue with the Government of Colombia and Peru.

The intention is to offer "immediate" regularization for those who cannot receive the plan of the previous Lenín Moreno government, either due to the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic or because they simply do not have the 50 dollars required for the humanitarian visa.

 

It is, the minister pointed out, a process so that "those citizens who were not regularized will have, not only a perspective of dignity, but also of economic, social and cultural inclusion in our country."

And "make transparent what is not transparent today."

"It is a huge challenge but that is the situation we have," said the minister without offering figures on the cost of the project, in which countries such as Canada, Germany and others from the European Union have offered their help so that the plan "includes the concerns "that are had.

"As we say here, they have helped with 'with money and person', with non-reimbursable cooperation funds, with technical equipment, and the United Nations system played a fundamental role."

Among the requirements that will be taken into account are the candidate's criminal record, according to the minister, for whom the project offers to resolve "the vulnerability" of this group.

"Now, this solution process does not remove the problem of origin that migration has and that - I believe in a very personal way - is something that must be discussed in the region," he said.

 

Link: https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/politica/gobierno-ecuatoriano-anunciara-este-mes-su-plan-de-regularizacion-de-migrantes-venezolanos-nota/