Croatia's Foreign Ministry will prepare a report on the United Nations' global pact on migrants, dubbed the Marrakech agreement, and the report will be discussed by the government next week, after which it will be forwarded to Parliament, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Friday.

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration aims to boost international cooperation in addressing the growing number of migrants globally.

“The Foreign Ministry, which has been coordinating the process of drawing up the report, will submit the report to the government next week, in order to shed light on the topic and explain what exactly this is about,” Plenkovic said at the start of the government session on Friday.

“After that, we will forward the document to parliament. I believe this topic deserves to be discussed by at least two parliamentary committees, so that MPs could also know what this is about,” Plenkovic said, adding that it was critical for everything surrounding the UN migration pact to be transparent.

The document is expected to be endorsed by world’s governments at a conference in Marrakech, Morocco, next month.

The agreement has recently stirred up a war of words between President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and the Foreign Affairs Ministry, with Grabar-Kitarovic first announcing she would support the pact, but then backing out, while the ministry said it sees nothing controversial in the document itself.

Plenkovic tried to dissuade critics by saying on Friday that the Global Compact was not an international treaty, nor was it legally binding.

“This is a catalogue of measures which have been worked on over the past two years, ever since the way was paved for it at the UN General Assembly… The document has taken its present form in July, and it is expected to be politically endorsed in Morocco in mid-December,” Plenkovic said.

He, however, did not say who would represent Croatia in Marrakech after the president backed out of the trip.

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