translated from Spanish: Ecuador, Peru and Chile coordinate to face Venezuelan migration

After two days of dialogue, the “Tripartite meeting for the exchange of experiences in the management of migration flows in the region” concluded on Tuesday, a meeting in which Ecuador, Peru and Chile participated in order to to reach agreements to jointly address the migration wave generated by Venezuela’s political and social crisis.
As a result of the meeting in Quito, countries agreed to set up a technical working group to manage “safe” and “orderly” migration of Venezuelan migrants. They will also share information “of visas granted and rejected, for better management and administration of migration management,” the Ecuadorian chancellery said via a statement.
This will be the topic that they will discuss in the first training workshop organized by the countries, which will take place in Santiago de Chile, for which a specific date was not delivered. “In addition, regular meetings will be promoted between the consuls of the three countries, based in Caracas, to share information and experiences,” the note adds.
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The delegation of Ecuador was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Human Mobility, Carlos Alberto Velástegui; Chile, by the Director General of Consular Affairs, Raúl Sanhueza; and Peru, by the Director General of Peruvian Communities abroad, Jorge Méndez. The three also agreed to exchange information on a “documentation center to be installed in Lima by the Governments of Peru and Chile, to which Ecuador was invited to participate”.
Ecuador imposed on 26 August the visa requirement on Venezuelan migrants in an attempt to regulate their entry into the country, after more than a million of them crossed their borders in the last two years, most to Peru and Chile. Of this figure, more than 300,000 remained in Ecuador, and their number was expected to grow to 500,000 by the end of the year, which will no longer happen as the demand for visas has drastically reduced the number of migrants.

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