“Cape Verde is a
country that has a responsible approach to the issue of migration”, Hungarian
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó said in a public
statement, this week while on official visit to Praia, the capital of Cape
Verde.
“The European
Commission often attempts to portray the whole continent as a group of
countries in which every state is working on ways to send its own citizens
towards Europe. They are attempting to portray Africa as a continent that is
trying to free itself of the burdens created by its increasing population.
This is not true of
all African countries, and is also not true in the case of Cape Verde”,
Szijjarto underlined, adding: “The Republic of Cape Verde needs its own
citizens; it doesn’t want to send them away, it wants to keep them”.
In addition to taking
its cooperation with the European Union seriously, the Republic of Cape Verde
is protecting its own borders and has introduced major border defence and
security measures.
For this reason,
Hungary has called for the EU to take the development of its relations with
Cape Verde seriously. Within the field of the economy, Cape Verde is calling
for the European Union to sign a bilateral economic partnership agreement with
the country.
“We must assist
countries that have a serious and responsible approach to issues that directly
affect the security of Europe”, Szijjártó said, pointing out: “We can be sure
that Cape Verde will not be a source of mass
migration, and that it will in all cases introduce measures relating to its own
security and that of Europe in cooperation with Europe”.
Both parties would
like to tighten economic cooperation in the interests of facilitating stability
in the Republic of Cape Verde and to also facilitate the interests of Hungarian
businesses.
“Within the
framework of this cooperation, Hungarian enterprises will be realising
investment projects in the country that contribute to reinforcing the stability
of the Republic of Cape Verde through improving the productivity of
agriculture, and via projects required to develop water management.
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Publish date : 2019-03-29 07:00:00
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