Estonian FM Urmas Reinsalu visits Hungary
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Hungary and Estonia work together for the international community to try to stop migration instead of promoting it, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Monday, after meeting Urmas Reinsalu, his Estonian counterpart.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Reinsalu, Szijjártó said that as a fellow member of NATO and the European Union, Estonia is an important ally of Hungary with similar stances on many dilemmas regarding the future of the world and Europe.
Hungary and Estonia both consider the UN’s global migration package a “dangerous document” and reject to see it as mandatory for their countries as migration is an issue of national sovereignty, Szijjártó said.
Hungary and Estonia cooperate in stopping the package being “clandestinely implemented in parts” after it had failed to be accepted as a whole, Szijjártó said.
Along with other countries, they operate an “early warning system” to alert one another if the package is referenced in documents or attempts are made to incorporate it into international law, he said.