Visegrad Four unified despite attempts to divide it, says Hungarian FM in Tallinn

The Visegrad Four has remained unified despite various attempts to divide it on issues such as migration, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday. 

He said the group’s unity was reaffirmed at an informal meeting of foreign ministers in Tallinn.

“We will continue to reject illegal migration and to fight against mandatory settlement quotas,” he told MTI by phone.

“We will not let them force impose on us a failed and dangerous decision regarding the mandatory settlement quota,” he added.

Szijjártó said there was a “sneaky deception” in connection with the quota. “They are trying to lay the blame for the complete failure of the relocation scheme on countries that were open about their rejection of it from the very beginning. Countries of the Visegrad Group belong in this latter category,” he said.

The foreign minister also had bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Tallinn event, meeting his Lithuanian counterpart Linas Linkevicius. The two officials agreed that Hungary-Lithuania relations were “exemplary” and that Lithuania greatly valued Hungary’s regular demonstration of solidarity with the Baltic countries, he said.