UN Counter-Terrorism Office in Budapest to expand Hungarian staff under new agreement

The United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism in Budapest will employ further Hungarian experts under a recently signed agreement, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.

In a Facebook post, the minister noted his Thursday talks with Vladimir Voronkov, UN’s under-secretary-general for counter-terrorism, and said a threat of terrorism was facing people in a number of places across the world, mentioning the Sahel in Africa, Syria in the Middle East, and Pakistan and Afghanistan in Asia. Terrorism, he added, had become a global challenge, affecting regions that had so far been considered safe. “The UN’s most important task should be a successful fight against terrorism,” Szijjártó said.

The UN centre in Budapest currently employs 28 people, including 8 Hungarians, he said, adding that the office was serving more and more functions, including monitoring the international movements of terrorists and coordinating actions to thwart such activities. Under the new agreement, one-third of the UN facility’s staff will be Hungarian, Szijjártó said.

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