“The patrolling police were the targets of Saturday night’s bomb explosion on Teréz körút in Budapest, they wanted to assassinate my police officers”, declared National Police Chief Károly Papp, who called the explosion an attack against the whole Hungarian police force.
“Immigrants would be assigned to every Hungarian settlement if the compulsory relocation quota was introduced”, the Minister in charge of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stressed in an interview to Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlap. In the Monday issue of the paper, Antal Rogán said: “We are in greater danger than we imagine”.
American news channel CNN interviewed Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó on the subject of migration and the upcoming referendum.
“Hungary is nominating itself for membership of the UN Human Rights Council”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in his speech during the General Debate of the ongoing 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Economic and education issues were the main topics of discussion at Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó’s bilateral negotiations on Friday.
“When people talk about the dangers of illegal immigration, incidents similar to the recent attack on a Hungarian truck driver in France put the case in a different light”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Press Chief Tamás Menczer said at a press conference.
“The Government’s standpoint is clear: Preserving Hungary’s demographic unity is a prerequisite for long-term survival”, János Lázár declared in Hódmezővásárhely.
On Kossuth Radio’s Sunday morning current affairs programme, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that there is a defensive and defiant alliance between the leaders of the Central European nations, based on the agreement that, despite everything, they shall defend their countries.
In a statement to the Catholic news portal “Magyar Kurír”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that “The whole of Europe is living through a pivotal period; humanity is now stepping into a new era – but as part of a process which is slower and more difficult than previous explosive tipping points”.
At the migration summit in Vienna on Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán proposed an emergency plan which includes designation of a new European line of defence in case the agreement between the European Union and Turkey becomes impossible to maintain for any reason.