“Without the technical border security system and protection through legal means and manpower, there can be no successful border security and no satisfactory internal security situation, and the country’s sovereignty will suffer”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.

György Bakondi pointed out that the demolishing of Hungary’s border security fence is included in the “Soros Plan” because with suitable legal and manpower support is serves as an effective tool that is capable of preventing the mass, illegal flow of people into Europe in contravention of the law.

The Hungarian fence is particularly annoying to the implementers of the “Soros Plan” because it is also backed by a strong national will and solidarity, and this goes against the ideology that regards immigration as a good thing, and in fact as the only solution, he added.

“The Hungarian standpoint was put forward clearly, and with a major level of support”, Mr. Bakondi declared, adding that in his opinion Hungary’s stable internal politics probably represents a “dangerous example” for the supporters of immigration, because it is something that European citizens think should be copied.

In addition to which it stands in the way of the reform of the European Union that some are planning, and the forces that are pushing for “stealthy legislation”, he added.

Anyone who attacks the technical border barrier is attacking the country’s external border security, and accordingly is also attacking the security of the European people”, he declared, adding that those who are attacking the regime that is protecting the border want unlimited immigration, mandatory resettlement according to quotas, and as the “implementers of the Soros Plan”.

“Further attacks are expected with relation to the fence in the upcoming months, and it sis the Government’s firm intention not to bow to political and legal pressure”, Mr. Bakondi said.

“Since it cannot count on Hungary’s opposition parties, the Government had decided to turn to the country’ citizens. We are asking citizens to make use of the opportunity afforded by the National Consultation to help the Government defend its migration policy”, he said.

The Hungarian border barrier is a major obstruction to one of the most important points of the “Soros Plan”, which is for Europe to receive a million immigrants-a-year, the Chief Security Advisor said. In October 2015, George Soros said: “Our plan is to protect refugees, and the only obstacles to this are national borders”, he reminded the press.

According to Mr. Bakondi, with this statement George Soros expressed the fact that he regards national borders and their protection as obstacles, adding that he believes the statement by the EC’s Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos’s in June criticising the fence, and several statements by the Hungarian opposition, are all related to the fact. As an example, he cited the fact that the Hungarian Socialist Party’s candidate for Prime Minister, László Botka, has also declared that he will immediately demolish the fence if elected.

The Chief Security Advisor recalled that 132,800 migrants crossed the Hungarian-Serbian border between 1 July and 15 September 2015, when the fence was erected, following which only 3700 thousand people attempted to cross that stretch of the border until the end of the year. 184,400 people crossed the Croatian-Hungarian border between 15 September and 15 October 2015, followed by only 10 until the end of the year. This also indicated the effectiveness of the border barrier, he said.

Mr. Bakondi also pointed out that before the fence was introduced the Government had examined the various international solutions applied in similar situations, such as along the American-Mexican and Spanish-Moroccan borders, and it was based on this that the Government decided on the need for a technical barrier to stop mass migration, and on the fact that legal and manpower protection is also required.

Other fences have been built in other countries since then, including along the Lithuania-Russian and Norwegian-Russian borders, he added.

The Chief Security Advisor also recalled that the 8-kilometre zone along the border introduced in July of 2016 had also achieved significant results, and statistical data also underpins the need for the legislative amendment that came into force in March of this year, according to which asylum requests can only be submitted in official transit zones.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)