Representative of the Hungarian Tisza party for foreign policy On Tuesday, Anita Orbán called on the head of diplomacy, Péter Szijjártó, on Facebook, for his department to immediately stop any destruction of documents. The correspondent of TASR in Budapest informs about it.
“Yesterday and today, serious information came from several sources about the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that documents related to sanctions materials and other documents began to be shredded there,” writes Orbánová, according to whom such an action is unacceptable.
“We urgently call on Minister Péter Szijjártó and his colleagues to immediately stop the destruction of all documents. In addition we ask that they do not delete any data or documents from any electronic system. Anyone who acts contrary to this or asks for help in these matters is committing an illegal act. We are telling his colleagues that there is no need to worry anymore. Henceforth, no one can suffer any harm for refusing an illegal order,” Orbán added.
Politician Tiszy further invited the Department of Diplomacy, so that during this transitional period it does not take decisions on the dismissal or posting of workers. According to the 24.hu server, the first reports that Szijjártó was destroying documents at the ministry appeared during Monday’s first international press conference of Tisza leader Péter Magyar after winning the parliamentary elections, when the paper with the said report was brought to the speaker’s desk.
The server recalled that Szijjártó was not present at the multifunctional center Bálna, where the Fidesz leadership was waiting for the election results on Sunday evening. “Orbánová is an experienced diplomat and the highest-ranking Hungarian in the international business world,” Magyar said on January 24, adding that Orbán had returned home from a top management position in London.
According to the candidate for prime minister she is the first Hungarian woman to receive a doctorate at the oldest diplomatic academy in the USA, the Fletcher School in Boston, and about the only Hungarian diplomat who, after leaving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also reached the top of business life.
