A/72/173 migration is not sustainable if the objective is to reduce suffering and deaths. Those events have also underlined the increasing importance of migration. 81. Migration is here to stay. The inclusion of migration in the Sustainable Development Goals demonstrated the importance of migration today and the commitment of States to addressing it. 82. In the high-level plenary meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants, and in its outcome document, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, migration was firmly established as a priority issue within the United Nations system, and the need of States to commit to the protection of the human rights of migrants and improved global migration governance was acknowledged. 83. The global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration offers an opportunity for better migration governance that would enable States to develop clear, long-term and evidence-based migration policies ensuring the full protection of the human rights of all migrants. 84. The Special Rapporteur considers the global compact on migration, which is to be presented for adoption in 2018, as the beginning of a long-term, 15-year agenda, complementary to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and aimed primarily at implementing targets 10.7 and 8.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals. The objective is to provide States with short-, mediumand long-term achievable goals and targets aimed at facilitating migration and mobility and protecting the human and labour rights of migrants, as requested in the 2030 Agenda. 85. The long-term strategy would start in 2020, which could be designated as the “International year for safe, orderly and regular migration for all”. The strategy could be called the “2035 agenda for facilitating human mobility”. The Special Rapporteur recommends the adoption of eight practical and achievable goals, with appropriate targets and indicators, as his contribution to the 2035 agenda. He acknowledges that the goals and targets could be further refined and must be developed in full recognition of the challenges that States are facing in their endeavour to establish a global framework for rights -based global migration governance. 86. The Special Rapporteur recommends that a consultative process be led by the United Nations to further develop goals and targets. Such a process would include the participation of experts, representatives of the business community and civil society organizations and migrants themselves. It would build upon the principles and guidelines, supported by practical guidance, on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable situations within large and/or mixed movements that were developed by the Global Migration Group. The guidance could form an important starting point for the development of goals and targets, given that it is derived from existing obligations under international law and is aimed at assisting States and other stakeholders with regard to the refinement, strengthening, implementation and monitoring of measures to protect migrants in vulnerable situations. 87. States need to develop inclusive processes so as to allow for national consultations that foster better understanding of and adaptation to each goal, target and indicator, according to national contexts, taking into account and carrying the voice of migrants in particular. 88. A longer-term strategy will require long-term investment in order to ensure the effective implementation and monitoring of all eight goals. The implementation of such an agenda within the framework of the United Nations 17-12223 25/26