Prague, Sept 4 (CTK) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not accept the help in dealing with the migration crisis offered by the three other countries of the Visegrad Group (V4) Friday, Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka said after a Prague meeting of V4 prime ministers.
“Viktor Orban did not ask for any particular assistance Friday,” he said.
Sobotka told journalists that Orban said he might accept the offer later.
“Orban did not rule it out that he might address the V4 countries with a concrete proposal or demand if the migration crisis continued and Hungary was under such strong pressure for a long time,” Sobotka said.
He said Orban told his colleagues from the V4 that Hungary applied its own measures to the immigrants and proceeded strictly according to the rules for the protection of the Schengen Area.
Hungary is one of the countries through which one of the strongest steams of mostly Syrian, Iraqi and Afghani refugees heading for Western Europe has been passing. To reinforce the border protection, a barbed-wire fence has been built at the border between Hungary and Serbia on Budapest’s order.
After Hungary blocked refugees from boarding trains to Austria and Germany because they did not have EU visas, several hundreds of the refugees set up from Budapest’s main train station on foot Friday, saying they would walk all the way to Austria.
