Hungary follows US in pulling out of UN migration pact
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Under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Hungary has adopted increasingly hardline anti-migration policies
[Sorin Furcoi/Al Jazeera]
Hungary‘s right-wing government is withdrawing from a United Nations pact on migration, saying the global deal encourages movements of people which are “dangerous for the world”.
After 18 months of negotiations, the draft for the Global Compact for Migration was approved on Friday by 191 UN member nations, but not the United States, which withdrew in December saying it was “inconsistent” with its “immigration and refugee policies”.
Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a third consecutive term in April on a fiercely anti-migration platform, decided not to sign the final document at a ceremony in Morocco in December.
Peter Szijjarto, Hungary’s foreign minister, said on Wednesday that the document is “entirely against Hungary’s security interests”.
“Its main premise is that migration is a good and inevitable phenomenon. We consider migration a bad process, which has extremely serious security implications,” Szijjarto said after a cabinet meeting in the capital, Budapest.
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