Next year’s EP elections will be crucial both for Hungary and Europe, Antal Rogán, the Prime Minister’s cabinet chief stated in an interview published in the Thursday issue of the newspaper Magyar Hírlap.
“The standpoint of the Hungarian Government is that migration is dangerous and must be stopped”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minster of State for Communications and Hungary’s International Image said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday morning current affairs program with relation to the UN Global Compact for Migration.
“Hungary will be voting no to the Global Compact for Migration, because most of its goals are at odds with Hungary’s national interests”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared on Wednesday in New York at the plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly, the topic of which was the adoption of the UN Global Compact for Migration.
“There was no surprise at Wednesday’s vote on the UN Global Compact for Migration during the organisation’s plenary session in New York with relation to the fact that the adoption of the Compact was supported by the African, Asian, Latin-American and the Small Island countries, obviously because it conforms to their interests”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared in a statement to public media from New York following the vote.
According to State Secretary for International Communications and Relations Zoltán Kovács, the police response to the protests that have been held in the country since last Wednesday evening have been extremely subdued compared to the fact that Members of Parliament and political activists have attacked police and public institutions.
The Ministry of Justice has prepared the English and French translations of the texts of the Act on Pubic Administration Courts and the Act on the Coming into Force of the Act on Pubic Administration Courts and certain Transitional Regulations, which have been sent to the President of the Republic for signature.
The government regards the acts of violence of the past few days as unacceptable, the government spokesperson said at a press conference held on Wednesday at Kossuth tér, in Budapest.
The UN General Assembly is making a very serious mistake by adopting the global migration compact at its Wednesday plenary meeting, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said shortly before the beginning of the meeting in New York.
“The police will continue to do everything possible in the interests of the security of the country and Hungarian families during the Christmas holidays, and accordingly will assure the protection of the border with continued vigilance and intensity”, The Ministry of Interior’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at a press conference in Budapest on Wednesday.
A cooperation agreement on humanitarian aid was signed on Tuesday by the State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Hungary Helps Program and USAID, the international development agency of the United States of America. The conclusion of the agreement is a major opportunity and a recognition of the achievements of the Hungary Helps Program.