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Hungarian, Croatian presidents not allow refugee crisis to damage relationship

Xinhua, October 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

Hungarian President Janos Ader and his Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic focused on the current wave of refugees entering the European Union (EU) by way of Croatia and travelling through Hungary, at a news conference here on Wednesday.

Ader said the issue went far beyond the countries immediately affected and he called on the entire international community to consider the short, medium, and long-term measures needed to resolve the migration crisis.

Ader emphasized that a quota system would not resolve the problem but if there were to be quotas, the entire world had to step in and share in the placement of refugees.

Grabar-Kitarovic said she felt that the relationship between Hungary and Croatia had suffered because of the crisis, in that Croatia has been bussing refugees straight to the Hungarian border. However, both officials said they would not allow the crisis to damage the relationship between the two neighboring countries.

Grabar-Kitarovic also discussed cooperation between the two parliaments with Speaker of Parliament Laszlo Kover. Both officials felt that there was a firm foundation for overcoming the current migrant-related difficulties between the two countries.

According to Hungarian police, 5,982 migrants had crossed into Hungary from Croatia on Tuesday.

So far this year, more than 324,000 migrants had entered Hungary, about one-third of them were recorded at the Croatian border. Endit