Hungary rejects UN declaration on granting illegal migrants equal access to health care

Hungary refuses to recognise the passages of a United Nations declaration on universal health care saying that illegal migrants in UN member states should have the same access to health care as taxpaying citizens, the foreign minister said in New York on Monday.

Addressing a plenary session of the UN General Assembly on universal health care, Péter Szijjártó said there were “numerous ongoing attempts” to gradually incorporate the Global Compact for Migration into international law. He accused the UN of trying to “hide” the chapters of the compact in decisions which the organisation could later refer back to.

The declaration on universal health care is one such attempt, Szijjártó said, insisting that the United Nations was trying to force its member states to provide equal health-care access to everyone irrespective of legal status.