Szijjarto: UN migration package shouldn't become reference point

Hungary, along with some like-minded countries such as Poland, is working to ensure that the United Nations global migration compact does not become a reference point in international law, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's foreign minister, told a UN General Assembly session focusing on human rights. "What we said last year, after Hungary, the United States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Israel and Brasil rejected the UN global migration package, has come true," Szijjarto said on Wednesday local time. "It was already obvious at the time that the UN, backed by the European Union, would try to implement piecemeal what it had failed to reach in one go." Since then, the UN has drafted a series of resolutions that referred to the global migration and refugee packages, making repeated attempts to incorporate them into international law as a reference point, he said. "Hungary's position is clear. The global migration package should neither fully, nor partially form a part of international law," Szijjarto said.