Péter Szijjártó announced at the one-day meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels that the Cotonou partnership agreement concluded by the European Union with 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific states has become a migration agreement, with which the EU wants to further increase the migration pressure on the EU member states. The deal completely ignores the new reality that millions of people in Europe have lost their jobs.
The minister also drew attention to the fact that the European Commission intends to sign the text in such a way that it does not require ratification by the member states for its entry into force. Hungary will not allow this, it will act against it with all available means. He called it unacceptable that "in the shadow of the coronavirus epidemic, another attack should be launched in Brussels in order to speed up migration".
"We insist that our national parliament have the opportunity to decide whether we want to use a pro-migration document," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
In the context of the Foreign Affairs Council's dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, he said that Hungary considers it extremely important to respect human rights, including minority rights. It is noticeable that minority rights have recently started to be applied in a discriminatory manner in international political life. They try to forget religious and nationality rights in the face of other types of minority rights. The rights of nationalities are seriously violated in many parts of the world. Such is Ukraine, where the rights of the Hungarian national minority are systematically violated, the minister pointed out.
"We expect both the UN and the European Union to be at least as vocal on this issue as they are for alleged or real human rights violations thousands of kilometers away. We expect them to hold the rights of national minorities at least as much in their hearts as they hold other types of minority rights in their hearts," he said.
He also drew attention to the fact that, although the Christian community is the most persecuted religious community in the world, this hardly appears in international documents. Hungary wants this discriminatory process to end, added the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
