United Nations ‘promoting’ migration, terrorism, says Hungarian foreign minister

The United Nations “encourages terrorism and promotes migration” through its “very dangerous” policies, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told a press conference in Bratislava(Pozsony) on Tuesday.

Speaking at a press conference after a meeting of foreign ministers of the Visegrad Four and of Turkey, Szijjártó said that a UN commissioner for human rights is planning to launch a procedure against Hungary in connection with a Syrian national sentenced in Hungary on terrorism charges.

The United Nations “should fight terrorism and terrorists, but the organisation is doing just the opposite thus encouraging terrorists,” Szijjarto said. “It is shocking that the UN has sided with terrorists and finds excuses for them,” he said. The UN “encourages the two most dangerous trends in the world: migration and terrorism, tendencies that reinforce each other,” Szijjártó added.

Szijjártó insisted that terrorism was on the increase and insisted that “the UN cannot be relied on”. Turkey, however, has a crucial role in managing the pressure of migration, he said, adding that migration was expected to increase, too, since “at least 35 million migrants in Europe’s neighbourhood are ready to set off”.

Answering a question about Turkey’s European integration, Szijjártó criticised “some countries” for being “hypocritical” and presenting different positions in public and when “being among themselves”. He urged that the EU should build a strategic partnership with Turkey and stop “playing such an unfair game”.