The promotion and protection of human rights, including the rights of national minorities, has been traditionally high on the agenda of the successive Hungarian governments, Foreign Minister Peter Balazs said at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday.
“The presence of flourishing minority communities does not weaken a state, but rather makes it stronger. Trust between the majority and minority within a country can be built only on this basis,” he said.
Balazs confirmed that the government of Hungary condemned any forms of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia and fought any of their manifestations both in Hungary and abroad.
Balazs spoke about the global economic and financial crisis, including the series of stabilisation measures adopted by the Hungarian government. “Today we can claim that the Hungarian economy is well on its way towards recovery and the foundations of a more sustainable development have been laid,” he said.
Concerning climate change, Balazs stressed the need for a comprehensive strategy to face all dimensions of the crisis. He expressed Hungarys full commitment to achieving important results at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Surveying the main hotbeds of tension, Balazs said that the present crisis should not undermine the international communitys efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. He said that Hungary would continue to take its share in responsibility by implementing its donor programs in Afghanistan, Vietnam and the Western Balkans.
The minister said that Hungary actively supported the full integration of the Western Balkans into the European and Euro-Atlantic structures.
Balazs expressed deep concern over the latest developments concerning the nuclear programme of Iran. The minister urged Iran to abide by the relevant UN Security Council resolutions and engage in substantive negotiations.
On the sidelines of the General Assembly, Balazs held talks with his counterparts from Armenia, Liechtenstein, Guinea, Nicaragua, Uzbekistan and the Philippines. The minister informed his colleagues about Hungarys quest to become a non-permanent member of the Security Council in 2012-2013, and its plan to establish the Budapest Centre for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.
I’m curious who’s going to be protecting a “Hungarians” rights?
The Police, of course.
hhmm protecting their rights….like in the west till there are millions in the country…
Yes, who protects the magyar? Good question!
@Geezer – As I said the 1st time, The Police. Do you have comprehension difficulties?
@ Anonymous;
Oh, thats right, I forgot, silly me!
I must have been thinking of some other countries corrupt police force protecting everybody’s rights but the countries “supposed” majority!!
@justasking – yes, silly you!
This snivelling in which some of the politicians are indulging nowadays is untolerable. Did they
weep when every year hundreds of thousands of Hungarians had to emigrate, from inability to find a livelihood on our own soil? These Hungarians had no kinsfolk in various parts of the world; they were left to their own mercies, they went off into the unknown.
Nothing of that sort for the Jews, who have uncles, nephews, cousins everywhere. In the circumstances, the pity continually shown by politicians is particularly out of place. In any case, is it we who created nature, established its laws?
Things are as they are, and we can do nothing to change them. Providence has endowed living creatures with a limitless fecundity; but she has not put in their reach, without the need for effort on their part, all the food they need. All that is very right and proper, for it is the struggle for existence that produces
the selection of the fittest.
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