Hungary, Austria, Serbia leaders to discuss illegal migration in Budapest

A summit meeting of Hungary, Austria, and Serbia will be held in Budapest next Monday focusing on joint efforts to fight illegal migration, the Hungarian prime minister’s press office said on Thursday.

The international press quoted Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer as saying that the talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would also touch upon joint action against organised crime and smuggling.

Szijjártó: Global security at stake

The world’s security is at stake because of the war in Ukraine, the Hungarian foreign minister said at a ministerial meeting of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok. In a video published on Facebook on Thursday, Péter Szijjártó warned of a continued escalation of the war, adding that the world was also facing other challenges.

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The war poses risks physically, financially, as well as in terms of energy and food supplies, the minister said. “Things are going in the wrong direction and the results of efforts of several decades could be compromised,” he said, adding that the impacts of the war could be felt in Asia and the Pacific region, too.