Szijjarto: Hungary, Poland against UN migration compact 'brought through back door'

Hungary and Poland object to the United Nations migration compact and similar European Union plans being "brought in through the back door" by being inserted into various EU and UN documents as separate paragraphs, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after talks with Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski on Monday. Since 40 countries refused to vote in support of the UN global compact for migration, there has been a "clearly noticeable effort to revive the [pact] by inserting separate paragraphs into various UN and EU documents," in order to create an international legal point of reference, he said. Commenting on his talks, Szijjarto said he and Brudzinski had agreed the two countries would join forces to prevent attempts to revive either the migration package or the mandatory migrant settlement quota. He added that both Poland and Hungary were against plans to strip individual countries of their powers over border protection.