Off the wire
• Indian stocks edge lower  • 1st LD-Writethru: China's first home-grown maglev in operation  • Case closed! Missing nature reserve camera stolen by weasels  • Ancient coins unearthed in Everest temple  • China says debt risks in major state firms controllable  • Xinjiang to strengthen preschool bilingual education  • Taliban group commander detained in eastern Afghanistan  • Weather forecast for world cities -- May 6  • Weather forecast for major Chinese cities, regions -- May 6  • Guinea to audit education system in preparation for reforms  
You are here: 　 Home

Hungary plans further border-tightening: gov't official

Xinhua, May 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Hungarian government is planning to introduce new measures to protect its borders, Karoly Kontrat, state secretary at the Interior Ministry told a news conference here on Friday.

The proposal is aimed at preventing any migrant from entering or staying in Hungary illegally, Kontrat said.

The changes, which require approval by parliament, call for allowing police to halt people within an 18-kilometer zone around the border and to move all persons who legally entered the country to a transit zone where they will have the opportunity to request asylum. The decision on whether to grant them refugee status will be an expedited one, Kontrat added.

Parliament is expected to begin debating the issue on May 17.

Meanwhile, government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said that so far this year 10,000 people had been detained for illegally entering Hungary, while the number of people submitting requests for asylum is higher than that. Endit