Hungary continues to reject UN migration package
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Hungary will not participate in the approval process of the United Nations’ global migration compact in any form and will not consider it binding at all, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in talks coinciding with the UN General Assembly session in New York on Friday.
Szijjártó told public media that he had informed UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo and President of the United Nations General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces about Hungary’s position.
As Europe’s response to the migration crisis has been a failure and the response of Hungary and other central European countries a success, forcing the approval of the migration package is the worst thing the United Nations can do, he said.
The global migration compact will only worsen the situation because it will encourage millions of people to set out, risking their lives and paying millions of dollars to the network of human smugglers,
Hungary’s sovereignty must always be maintained.