05/02/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 5 February, the spokesperson for the Hungarian government, Zoltán Kovács, said in Brussels that Hungary will not be associated with the discussions on the Global Compact for migration that UN Secretary General António Guterres proposed to the heads of state of the whole world in mid-January. Guterres had asked the UN member countries to negotiate this compact to facilitate legal migration routes. He asked them to recognise the mutual benefits linked to migration. Hungary contests this view, the spokesperson for the government of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated. Hungary will not therefore join an initiative that is based on these assertions, he said. Kovács furthermore repeated on Monday his country's position of being opposed to any obligatory relocation of asylum seekers in the EU, promising that Budapest "will never give in" on this issue. (SP)