Minister about migration: “we, Hungarians were right”
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The global food crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine could lead to the emergence of new migration waves, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in New York on Thursday, urging greater support from the international community for countries in a difficult situation.
Szijjártó is scheduled to address the United Nations Security Council’s debate on food security, according to a ministry statement. The minister said Hungary will donate seed, ten tonnes of corn, five tonnes of potato and half a tonne of sunflowers to farmers in western Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region.
Because
Russia and Ukraine are among the world’s top grain exporters,
their conflict will significantly reduce their exports, which will likely put countries already facing serious challenges into a more difficult situation, Szijjártó said. This, he said, could lead to a rise of extremist ideologies in those places, increasing the threat of terrorism, which in turn threatened the emergence of new migration waves.
Szijjártó said the war in Ukraine posed both a direct and indirect security risk to Hungary because of the proximity of the fighting and the influx of immigrants.
Szijjártó is also scheduled to address a forum evaluating the UN’s global migration compact, where he will express the Hungarian government’s continued disagreement with the document. He said migration had resulted in the emergence of parallel societies and an increased threat of terrorism in western Europe, adding that migrants were incapable of integrating into western society and were “putting pressure on a society that’s been living there for centuries”.
“It is clear that we, Hungarians were right,”
Szijjártó said. “Migration should not be encouraged but stopped, as this is what is in our security interest, because a life of peace and security in one’s homeland is one of the most fundamental of human rights,” he added. “This is threatened by migration.”