“When people are on the move ... we need to accompany them ... to be protected, to be safe,” he said, adding that humanitarian services must be provided and his organisation was here to assess needs. “We are looking to see how we can partner with governments, civil society organisations and UN agencies to better support the needs of these people,” he added.

Asked to comment on positive feedback from migrants about services in Hungary, Sy said “if they say so they have a reason to say so. We take their view and we respect it”.

“This is an opportunity for me to praise my colleagues at the Hungarian Red Cross for what they are doing,” he said, adding that at the same time the organisation always strives to do better and to do it faster.

He praised the attitudes of locals in encountering migrants. “Local communities are the first ones to give a bottle of water, even though they don’t have much,” Sy told M1.

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