Stop supporting NGOs involved in the maritime transport of migrants, Hungarian FM says
The European Union should launch a comprehensive financial and technical programme to support the North African and Mideastern countries in defending their borders, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Barcelona on Monday.
Addressing a regional forum of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), Szijjarto said he expected growing migration pressure from the southern regions of Africa.
“While Europe is facing several simultaneous challenges, more and more migrants arrive in the continent, already from three directions,” he said.
The position of the Hungarian government has remained unchanged, Szijjarto said. Rather than encouraged to leave their country, those in need should be assisted by eliminating the root causes of migration in their homeland, he said.
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Europe should aim to halt migration as far as possible from its borders, for which effective cooperation with the North African nations is indispensable, Szijjártó said.
“It is not an exaggeration to say that the EU’s security starts with the security and stability of North Africa,” he said.
As the issue is crucial, the EU “should free its financial support from all artificial political preconditions,” the minister said, referring to Egypt, which halted migration over the past five years but had no access to EU funds for “certain human rights issues”.
Szijjártó called for discontinuing support for NGOs involved in the maritime transport of immigrants,
saying that their actions undermine the partner countries’ efforts to defend their borders.
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“Szijjártó called for discontinuing support for NGOs involved in the maritime transport of immigrants,”
Right again.
If they want to save these people, take them back where they came from: to Africa.
In less than a year, they would stop coming, no drawings and no bleeding heart sob stories.
They don’t belong here.
They have their own continent.
Say no to people smuggler Soros!
Mr. Szijjarto is right as usual. NGOs’ actions are tantamount to smuggling.