Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest | Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images Hungary demands UN official quit for calling Orbán racist Human rights commissioner accuses Hungarian leader of seeking ‘racial purity.’

The U.N.'s human rights chief sparked a row with Budapest on Monday by referring to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as being one Europe's "racists and xenophobes" seeking "ethnic, national or racial purity."

Zeid bin Ra'ad al-Hussein made the statements at a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, and cited Orbán's prior comments about Hungary not wanting to be "diverse" or "mixed," according to AFP.

“Xenophobes and racists in Europe are casting off any sense of embarrassment, like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, who earlier this month said ‘we do not want our color … to be mixed in with others,'” Zeid said. “Do they not know what happens to minorities in societies where leaders seek ethnic, national or racial purity?”

The U.N. commissioner's words were met with immediate condemnation from Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who called Zeid "unworthy" of his position and demanded that he resign. Szijjártó went on to defend Hungary's stance on migration by arguing that it is a trend that must be stopped because it fosters terrorism, according to Die Zeit.

Zeid, a Jordanian prince, has said he won't seek another term when his current one ends in August.