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Hungary charges other EU countries with neglecting to register migrants

Xinhua, June 25, 2015 Adjust font size:

Hungarian Justice Minister Laszlo Trocsanyi argued on Wednesday that the failure of other European Union (EU) countries to register migrants was the result of Hungary's immigration overload.

As such, the influx was the reason the country temporarily halted the re-admission of migrants registered in Hungary who had gone on to other countries.

In a letter to European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans, Trocsanyi argued that Hungary was temporarily unable to re-accept the asylum seekers who traveled on to other EU countries after being registered in Hungary as required by the Dublin III decree because of the huge number of people involved.

Many, Trocsanyi said, had previously been in other EU countries which had failed to register them.

At the same time, Trocsanyi acknowledged that 60,089 of the 60,620 migrants apprehended entering Hungary since the start of the year had crossed the EU border from Serbia, which is not an EU country.

Trocsanyi emphatically stated that Hungary's refusal to re-admit the asylum seekers it registered was a temporary measure and that his country remained fully committed to adhering to the Dublin agreement.

Meanwhile, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto announced that the government was setting aside 6.5 billion forints (about 23.5 million U.S. dollars) to build a temporary security fence along Hungary's border with Serbia.

Szijjarto told media on Wednesday that Hungary was in full compliance with all EU rules and was initiating talks with EU leaders on illegal migration.

Hungary, he said, planned to build temporary security fences along all border sections where it had no other way to halt illegal crossings.

The large number of illegal immigrants on the Serbian border had resulted in staff working to capacity to register them in keeping with EU rules, he said.

Szijjarto went on to say that Austria and 10 other EU countries planned to return illegal immigrants to Hungary which Hungary could not agree with, given that they had initially crossed into the EU from Greece, where they had not been registered. Endit