New Zealand won't be joining Australia in refusing to sign a non-binding United Nations migration agreement and has called claims the deal would undermine its national sovereignty "falsehoods".
, despite having been actively negotiating the wording for two years, because it would compromise Australia's border security and immigration settings.
In a decision announced on Wednesday afternoon, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said his country would be supporting the deal and that legal advice to his administration showed the agreement was "neither legally binding nor constraining on this country setting its own migration policies".
