According to the Prime Minister’s Chief Security Advisor, there are 70-80 thousand migrants stuck on the Balkan migration route and fluctuations are expected in the number of attempts to illegally cross the Hungarian border.

Speaking on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday morning current affairs program, György Bakondi said there was permanent migration pressure on the Hungarian border.

Attempts to illegally cross the border had occurred at both border crossing stations and along the green border.

Speaking later on Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” program, Mr. Bakondi declared that Hungary has a stable border protection system and the majority of people stuck along the Balkan migration route are not Syrian, but come from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

The Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister noted that the main “centre of gravity” for migration has now shifted to the maritime route between Libya and Italy.

According to Mr. Bakondi, there are currently no circumstances that suggest migration pressure “will eventually cease of its own accord”.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)