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The EU will give 21 mn EUR for Central Asian border protection
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Partly thanks to Hungarian lobbying, the European Union is launching a 21 million euro programme over 5 years to fund border protection efforts in Central Asian countries, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Dushanbe on Wednesday.
This is triple the funding of an earlier programme, Szijjártó said after talks with Tajik counterpart Sirodjidin Muhriddin. “We have have made sure that the EU is launching a new programme with three times the funding of earlier schemes,” he said, adding that
Tajikistan was among “the most important allies of the anti-terrorism community”,
especially in warding off security risks from Afghanistan.
“Tajikistan’s border [with Afghanistan] is 1,344km long, and we have persistently called for substantial funding from the European Union for border protection in Tajikistan and in other Central Asian countries,” the minister said.
“We Hungarians do not want more migration, terror attacks or extremist ideologies in the European Union.”
“We are also lobbying the EU to renew its partnership agreement with Tajikistan and grant the country favourable economic and trade discounts,” he said.