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Daily News Daily News · 10/05/2022
· Politics

Brussels Syria Conference: Minister Szijjártó warns of continuing security challenges outside EU

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Amid challenges linked to the war in Ukraine, “continued security challenges in the neighbourhood of the European Union must not be neglected”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Brussels on Tuesday on the sidelines of an international donor conference in support of Syria.

Speaking to Hungarian journalists, Szijjártó called for efforts to prevent the EU from having to face multiple security challenges should it fail to handle problems in the Middle East or north Africa.

Europe must do everything possible to avoid further waves of mass migration,

he said, arguing that the EU should “not promote migration” but help create conditions locally whereby residents are not forced to leave their homelands. Hungary supports and will contribute to European programmes aimed at creating such conditions and helping refugees return to their homelands, he added.

At the conference, Hungary offered a total 1,085 one-year university scholarships to students from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq worth a combined 3.3 billion forints (EUR 8.7m), the minister said.

Currently nine Hungarian development projects worth a combined 6.3 billion forints are being implemented in Syria and in countries accommodating Syrian refugees, he added. The programmes are aimed at renewing and running hospitals, helping schools and promoting job creation, he said.

On another subject, Szijjártó said the government rejected “any attempt to compare refugees from Ukraine and illegal migrants [arriving in Hungary] from the south”. Hungary will accommodate all refugees fleeing Ukraine but it strictly protects its borders from illegal entrants, he said.

“As opposed to Ukrainian refugees, illegal migrants have no right to enter Hungary because they have already crossed dozens of safe countries,” the minister said.

As we wrote in last December, Hungary wants to boost economic cooperation with Iran.

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Source: MTI

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1 Comment

  1. Tibor says:
    10/05/2022 at 15:22

    Technically, refugees are people fleeing armed conflicts or persecution. The EU Qualification Directive sets guidelines for assigning international protection to those in need need. Asylum seekers are people who claim to be refugees but haven’t been recognised as such yet. So if a migrant applies for asylum, that claim will need to be assessed. You cannot just say based on race, gender, nationality, etc. that they are “illegal migrants” – “we just know!” is not good enough.

    And a flawed agrument: most Ukranian refugees don’t stay in Hungary (regardless of what our politicians say – we are just not attractive enough, it seems). Should other EU countries perhaps also say that, no, since they crossed one (Hungary) or more (via Romania) safe countries, they should have stayed there?

    Besides – if a

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