Hungary plans to create an international anti-genocide centre to be based in Budapest -- one of its aims being to give early warning of impending conflicts around the world, Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz told MTI on Thursday.

A United Nations representative said the UN supported the concept.

Hungary has an interest in helping to maximise global stability, and this involves minimising the number of hot spots where rising tensions spread into conflict and the devastation of communities, said Goncz.

The anti-genocide centre will collect data and monitor developments around the world, the foreign minister said at the first Budapest human rights conference.

Hungary will seek to gauge how much international support the proposal garners.

Margaret Sekaggya, a UN official engaged with human rights issues, told MTI that the project has the UN's support because the creation of such a centre would help to bring attention to the problem of genocide and provide an early-warning system about potential conflicts.