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Daily News Daily News · 19/11/2019
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Foreign IS fighters must be punished, says Hungarian Foreign minister in NY

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Instead of talking about taking back foreign fighters who joined the Islamic State militant group, the discussion within the international community should be about punishing them, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday.

The defeat of the Islamic State brings with it new security challenges for the world and specifically Europe, Szijjarto told MTI, summarising his address to a debate of the United Nations Security Council in New York. These challenges, he said, were rooted in the fact that tens of thousands of so-called foreign fighters had joined IS in recent years. “Unfortunately more than 5,000 of them are European Union citizens,” the minister added.

“We’re shocked to see certain international organisations making efforts to have these foreign fighters accepted back into European societies,”

Szijjártó said. “Instead, these foreign fighters should be punished and imprisoned in the place where they committed their crimes.”

Szijjártó argued that the Islamic State’s foreign fighters had chosen to join a terrorist group and were responsible for murders and spreading extremist ideologies. “We shouldn’t be talking about accepting these people back,” he insisted.

The minister said IS was now attempting to infiltrate its militants into Europe “which is a very serious security threat to us”.

“With the rising migration pressure from the Western Balkan region we must be ready for any foreign fighters who had earlier joined the terrorist group attempting to return to Europe with who knows what kind of intentions,” he added.

In order to prevent this, Europe must bolster the protection of its external borders, Szijjártó said. Hungary will continue to protect is southern border so as to prevent the return of IS’s foreign fighters to the continent, he added.

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