Greece slams Hungary's "unacceptable" stance on refugee crisis as influx continues

Greece strongly denounced on Thursday as "unacceptable" Hungary's overall stance on the refugee crisis, as the influx of thousands of undocumented people seeking refuge in Europe continued.

"We can not understand the delirium of Hungarian officials against our country and the unacceptable, as the UN Secretary General stated, behavior of Hungarian security forces towards refugees, including infants," Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Konstantinos Koutras said.

Koutras made the remarks when responding to the Hungarian government's criticism that Greek authorities have not taken enough measures to prevent the influx of refugees and migrants entering Europe.

"The use of violence, patrols with machine guns and pushing innocent war victims into Balkan minefields is not a behavior acceptable for an EU member state," the Greek official stressed in a press release.

Furthermore, he underlined that no country can deal with the "unprecedented refugee crisis" on its own and that Greece is doing "everything possible."

"This emergency requires humanity, cooperation, solidarity and coordination with the other European partners and not cynicism, provocative statements, use of violence and return to Cold War walls," stressed Koutras.

The remarks by the Greek official was made as the European Parliament was approving on Thursday the European Commission's proposal for the relocation of 120,000 refugees from Greece, Italy and Hungary.

More than 230,000 migrants and refugees, mainly from Syria, have reached Greece's shores in most cases from Turkey since January this year seeing the debt laden country as a transit state on their journey to a better future in the prosperous central and northern European countries.

About 3,000 people have lost their lives in the Mediterranean Sea this year in tragedies with vessels carrying undocumented refugees and migrants who are paying small fortunes to smugglers.

The record high wave of incoming desperate people has caught Greece and the entire EU unprepared, according to experts.

Greece has been criticized of being unable to provide basic aid to refugees in the first several weeks of the crisis.

The country pledged this week the creation of at least two new reception centers by November in the city of Lavrio, about 50 km from Athens, and in the northern Greece city of Sindos near Thessaloniki, which could jointly accommodate up to 1,400 people.

The promise came as a number of European countries have strengthened inspections at their borders in the past few days and Athens fears that the bulk of refugees will be trapped in Greece.

Following a string of sea tragedies in the Aegean Sea and the ease of pressure on the Greek islands near Turkey's coasts lately, the focus is turning to the land borders with Turkey, where thousands of refugees and migrants are heading, according to media reports. Endit