Hungary’s Foreign Minister: Tightened Border Controls Aimed At Curbing Illegal Migration
- 24 Sep 2015 3:54 AM
Hungary’s fence on its border with Croatia “has nothing to do with Croatian or Hungarian people, and is simply aimed at curbing illegal migration,” Hungary’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, told Croatian public service television channel HRT. Last week, Croatian authorities sent some 1,000 migrants on a train across the border to southern Hungary without prior notification. Referring to the incident, Szijjártó told the broadcaster that if Croatia had wanted to send a train to Hungary, its interior minister should have contacted his Hungarian colleague to explain the situation.
Szijjártó said it was not right that Hungary had first heard Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic’s announcement that Croatia would redirect migrants to the Hungarian border through the media.
Szijjártó reiterated that Hungary is building a fence along sections of its border with Croatia where such a barrier is needed.
The minister said Europe is experiencing mass migration, which he said would not stop anytime soon because even more people are on the way.
Szijjártó said that Croatia must protect its borders in order to cope with the challenge, adding that if Greece had done the same Hungary would not have been forced to implement the measures that it has done.
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