Lazar: Hungary requests help from Europe
Budapest, June 25 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban has written letters to the heads of the European Commission and the European Parliament on the topic of illegal migration, namely the issue of migrants being sent back to their first point of EU entry, the government office chief said on Thursday.
At a regular government press briefing, Janos Lazar said that based on the latest data, in the first stages, 16,000 non-EU migrants would be sent back to Hungary from other EU member states. Hungary would be incapable of receiving them, he said, adding that Hungarian interior ministry calculations suggest that this figure could balloon to as many as 200,000 in the second half of the year.
The government disputes the rationale for sending these migrants to Hungary since they had apparently first entered the EU in Greece, he said. This is where they should be sent back to, he said.
The migration issue will also be key at an upcoming Serbia-Hungary joint government session held on July 1. Serbian-Hungarian relations have improved significantly over the past few years, and it is in the interest of the Hungarian government that they should remain that way, Lazar said.
Concerning plans to build a fence along the Hungary-Serbia border, Lazar said the government was committed to completing the “temporary” partition, but added that the cabinet was open to discussing the issue with Serbia at an inter-governmental session next week.
The government will propose amending laws concerning Hungary’s borders to settle issues of ownership and use of the relevant areas, Lazar said. He added that the total area was some 5,000 hectares, one third of which was state-owned and the rest private. As to the latter, the state “will pay up”, he said.
Lazar said he trusted that the 175km, 4 metre high fence would make sure all border crossings are legitimate.
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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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