“Hungary and Poland are against the Migration Compact being brought back ‘through the back door’ by including it chapter by chapter in various UN documents”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI from Warsaw on Monday.
The Minister issued the statement following a meeting with Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski.
According to Mr. Szijjártó, “both the international liberal political elite and the network funded by George Soros” were extremely disappointed that 40 countries did not vote yes to the UN Global Compact for Migration last December. “As a result, ‘these circles’ have lost the opportunity to create a new international legal precedent, based on which countries that are against migration would also have to become the targets of immigration”, he said in evaluation. Both Hungary and Poland said no to the Migration Compact, in addition to which, thanks to their cooperation within the framework of the Visegrád Group (V4), the mandatory resettlement quotas were taken off the European Union’s agenda, he recalled.
These successes aimed at stopping migration have fuelled “the appetite for revenge of both EU and UN bureaucrats”, and those involved visibly not only “want to get their own back on the countries of Central Europe because the mandatory resettlement quota could not be introduced, and because of their not suitably enthusiastic receival of the Global Compact for Migration”, but continuously want to bring back the issue “through the back door”.
“The intent to bring back the Global Compact for Migration chapter by chapter in various UN and EU documents is clearly visible”, and if they did not succeed in establishing an international legal point of reference together, as a unit, then they will try to do so in this manner”, the Minister explained.
With relation to his talks with Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski, Mr. Szijjártó said: “According to our agreement, the two countries will be working together to prevent similar attempts with relation to both the Global Compact for Migration and mandatory resettlement quotas”.
“The parties are also against the removal of any issues from a national sphere of competence”, he underlined. “We insist on the fact that border protection and the guarding of borders must remain one hundred percent a national sphere of competence”, and also that “only we can decide who we want to allow into our own countries and who we want to live with” he emphasised.
The two ministers agreed to continue to provide humanitarian aid at the sources of migration, Mr. Szijjártó told the press, highlighting the importance of providing support to persecuted Christian and the even greater coordination of aid efforts.
During his visit to Warsaw, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade also met with the CEO of Polish airline LOT, Rafal Milczarski, and with Poland’s Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk.
The Minister and Mr. Milczarski continued “advanced talks” on the launching of further long and short-haul air passenger routes by LOT , and “a few major announcements” are expected on the subject in the upcoming weeks, while Mr. Szijjártó and Mr. Adamczyk discussed the acceleration of preparation work for the planned high-speed railway line connecting Budapest and Warsaw, the Minister stated.
In reply to a question from MTI concerning a conference on the situation in the Middle East jointly organised by Poland and the USA, Mr. Szijjártó announced that he will be taking part in this global ministerial meeting scheduled to take place in mid-February.
(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)
