Orban defends his 'race-mixing' comments as a 'cultural standpoint'

Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban defends his weekend comments against creating “peoples of mixed-race,” saying they represented a “cultural, civilizational standpoint.”

“It happens sometimes that I speak in a way that can be misunderstood… the position that I represent is a cultural, civilizational standpoint,” Orban tells reporters in a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer during a one-day visit in neighboring Austria.

Nehammer says the issue has been “resolved… amicably and in all clarity,” adding that his country “strongly condemned… any form of racism or antisemitism.”

Orban defends his ‘race-mixing’ comments as a ‘cultural standpoint’

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