“If the UN does not give up its current, totally biased pro-migration position, it could critically endanger Europe in the upcoming months”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Monday in Geneva at a session of the UN Human Rights Council and at the UN Disarmament Conference.

In a telephone statement to Hungarian news agency MTI, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said that in his speeches he had explained that the Islamic State jihadist terrorist organisation has been successfully pushed out of 98 percent of the territories it had previously occupied by the global coalition established to combat it, which Hungary has also joined. “This does not, however, mean the end of the Islamic State”, Mr. Szijjártó continued, referring to the fact that the terrorist organisation has shifted to using a totally different strategy, one of the most important elements of which is that it is trying to send the mercenary terrorists that had previously joined it back to the countries they originally came from.

The Minister pointed out that some five thousand EU citizens have served as foreign fighters for ISIS, and they have now begun attempting to return home. “The fact that ISIS-affiliated individuals have been apprehended in both Bosnia and Macedonia in recent weeks also points to this conclusion. “It is also clear that the route by which foreign fighters are returning leads through the Western Balkans, and accordingly it is extremely important that the Western Balkan and Central European countries continue to protect their borders with all their might. If this does not occur, then the way could be opened for foreign fighters to return”, he said.

In his speech at both forums, Mr. Szijjártó emphatically stressed that the UN should immediately give up its position in support of migration, because from now on every new wave of migration will make it easier for mercenary terrorists to return to Europe. In addition, these terrorists could have had access to weapons that are capable of causing major destruction, and will also be attempting to smuggle these in with them. “One of the reasons why it is important for the Disarmament Conference to succeed is so that the monitored disarmament of weapons gains greater impetus, thus preventing them from getting into the hands of terrorists”, he added.

The Minister called on the UN to change its pro-migration position.

“From now on, those who support migration and contribute to the launching of new waves of migration are in effect critically endangering Europe because of the attempts by mercenary terrorists to return to the continent that are now getting underway”, Mr. Szijjártó underlined.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)