PRAGUE, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Czech Republic will not send any representatives to the UN migration conference in Marrakesh, Morocco slated for next week, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Friday.

The global migration pact is to be approved at the conference. The Czech government rejected the global pact in mid-November, but had not ruled out sending its representative as an observer to the conference.

The UN countries will discuss the pact next Monday and Tuesday.

Czech has rejected the document along with the United States, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland. According to Czech government, migration pact does not include some Czech priorities such as a clear distinction differences between legal and illegal migrants, thus encouraging more migrants, including illegal migrants.

It also criticized the absence of a clear opinion in the final text of the document that illegal migration is undesirable. The final text of the document also failed to enforce the resolution proposed by the European Union to talk about forced return of illegal migrants as a legitimate part of migration policy.

The Czech government originally considered adopting the global pact with reservations. However, out of fear that the reservations will no longer be relevant when the pact is approved, it eventually decided not to join the convention.

The global migration pact, which aims to improve the international approach to the migrant problem, was approved by the UN in 2016. It is not binding on the signatories. Enditem

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