Lazar: Hungary to push to influence UN's migrant package

Hungary will stay in the talks on the UN's current migrant package and will make a push to influence the draft document in a meaningful way, the government office chief said on Thursday. Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, has been given a mandate to propose amendments to the five areas the Hungarian government finds problematic and to enforce Hungary's position in the document, Janos Lazar told a regular weekly press briefing. Lazar rejected the UN's position that migration has a positive effect on the economy and that it is a useful, favourable and unstoppable process. The government office chief voiced criticism over the draft document not distinguishing between political, economic, legal and illegal migrants.