Strategic alliance and friendship with Austria is Hungary’s interest, said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto after his meeting with the Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz.
“A strategic alliance and friendship with Austria is in Hungary’s interests and these relations must be based on mutual respect and recognition”, stated Mr Szijjarto adding EU’s external borders must be protected together.
There have been some turbulence in Hungarian-Austrian relations, but the cooperation between the Foreign Affairs Minsitries “has always been good” and may be “the best foundations for rebuilding and reinforcing the alliance and friendship between the two countries”, he said.
Sebastian Kurz also stressed the importance of the rational application of resources and of the fact that immigrants should enter Europe legally, because that is less dangerous, their numbers can be better kept in check and it will not result in certain countries being overburdened with migrants.
