Orbán cabinet not to recognise UN migration compact

Hungary will not enforce “a single passage” in the United Nations’ global migration compact, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said during talks with Antonio Vitorino, head of the International Organization for Migration IOM), in Geneva on Wednesday.

Szijjártó told a press conference after the talks that the package was contradictory to Hungary’s interests because “it encourages migration rather than seeking to stem such processes”.

The compact, similarly to the European Union’s mandatory quotas, would be “practically equal to an invitation”,

Szijjártó said, and insisted that in countries around the EU there are some 30-35 million people “whose conditions could easily motivate them to leave their homeland”.

“We are not going to pay for courses for migrants… we will not hide that mass migration will have serious security impacts and we will not provide the same services to migrants as to tax-paying Hungarians,” Szijjártó said.

The minister added, however, that

Hungary could cooperate with the IOM on such issues as helping persecuted Christians to return to their homes in the Middle East or fighting against people smuggling.

Source: MTI