“The joint security plan for supervising the Balkan migration route and preventing illegal people smuggling is an important step in the fight against illegal migration”, the Ministry of Interior’s parliamentary State Secretary, Károly Kontrát told Hungarian news agency MTI following a meeting of Interior and Defence Ministers of Southeast and Central European countries in Vienna on Wednesday.
The State Secretary said it was also important the whole European Union make similar decisions to the one made by the countries meeting in the Austrian capital, because in his opinion that is when Europe will be able to take effective action against illegal migration.
“Hungary has already been participating in cooperation, the practical measures of which have required major sacrifices, in addition to which it is taking concrete action to assure the security of people in Hungary and the EU”, he said.
The summit in Vienna was attended by Ministers from Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Greece, and by officials from the Central European Defence Cooperation (CEDC). The countries involved agreed to developed a joint security plan for supervising the Balkan migration route and preventing illegal people smuggling by no later than April of this year.