Szijjarto: Growing number of countries reject UN Migration Compact

An increasing number of countries have raised objections against the UN's Global Migration Compact and are expected to reject its adoption, Hungary's foreign minister said in parliament on Monday. There are at least 13 countries that will vote against the compact in the UN General Assembly on December 19, Peter Szijjarto told at a hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Those include the Visegrad Four group formed by the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, as well as Bulgaria, Latvia, Austria, the United States, Israel, Australia, Dominica and Brazil, he said. Hungary will also reject a "sister document", the Global Compact on Refugees which he said would allow migrants to enter Europe "through a backdoor", he said.