The recent statements by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who criticized the “mixing of races” and “multi-ethnic” society, are “inexcusable”, judged US diplomacy on Thursday.
“Rhetoric of this nature is inexcusable” more than “75 years after the Holocaust,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said, citing a statement by Deborah Lipstadt, Washington’s special representative on anti-Semitism.
“Rhetoric clearly evoking Nazi racial ideology”
Viktor Orban, accustomed to blows and fiercely anti-immigrant, had rejected on Saturday in a virulent speech the vision of a “multi-ethnic” society.
“We don’t want to be a mestizo,” who would mix with “non-Europeans,” the Hungarian leader said, before making an apparent allusion to the Nazi regime’s gas chambers.
In her statement, Deborah Lipstadt also said she was “deeply alarmed” by a speech that uses “rhetoric that clearly evokes Nazi racial ideology.”
“The comments we heard from Prime Minister Viktor Orban do not reflect the common values that bind the United States and Hungary, which are the foundation of relations between our two peoples,” Ned Price told reporters.
Visiting Austria on Thursday, Viktor Orban defended a Hungarian “cultural point of view” to justify his remarks. “In Hungary, these expressions and phrases represent a cultural and civilizational point of view,” he said in Vienna.
Source: BFM TV
