In the 2015 edition of its Nations in Transit report published on Tuesday, the American non-profit organisation stated that the quality of democratic government in Hungary has worsened since last year.
“The contents of the report are nonsense, as is the fact that people sitting around in offices thousands of miles away from Budapest want to tell us about the state that Hungary is in," Minister Szijjártó said.
The fact that they want to “downgrade” Hungary because of its standpoint on the immigration crisis is also nonsense, he added.
The Minister called it incomprehensible that criticism of Hungary’s response to the immigration crisis is coming from a country that built a wall along its southern border, not just a fence, and in whose presidential election campaign every possible opinion and its exact opposite is being voiced.
“We have been elected by the people of Hungary; our task and responsibility is to act in the interests of the Hungarian people and according to their security requirements. What motivates us isn’t earning words of acknowledgement from people sitting around in offices thousands of miles away,” Mr. Szijjártó explained.
Péter Szijjártó to Freedom House: nonsense
Apr 14, 2016
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, in a statement to the press earlier today, called the latest report on democratic rights by Freedom House "nonsense".