The President also observed that an ineffective management of irregular migration continued to pose serious challenges to the world, leading to human trafficking, discriminatory treatment and physical violence, inhuman treatment, deaths of migrants and was a potential for social upheaval and political tensions in host communities.

President Bio mentioned that when populations moved suddenly and uncontrollably or slowly but persistently, they had done so for a confluence of factors, which included protracted conflict, climate change and natural disasters; poverty, or perceived economic opportunities. He added that the world must contend with the dilemmas of rancor and hope, fear and optimism and opportunity and exploitation.