Ukraine. Peter Szijjarto: We will not allow ourselves to be drawn into war

Budapest strongly opposes the strengthening of the role NATO regarding the transfer of weapons to Ukraine and training of Ukrainian soldiers.

– Hungarian soldiers will not take part in such actions and we will not allow them to take place on Hungarian territory, he stressed. Sijjarto.

According to him NATO countries “they want to drag Hungary into war“, and the Alliance is exceeding the limits set at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. – Hungary will stay away from NATO's crazy mission despite the pressure put on us – said Szijjarto, quoted by Reuters.

Szijjarto met with the head of British diplomacy regarding NATO aid for Ukraine David Cameron.

– Great Britain is our ally and we agree on many important issues, said Szijjarto.

During the conversation, he touched on the issue of aid for Ukraine and assessing its chances of repelling Russian troops. He noted that they take a different position on the most important issue at the moment, i.e. how to end the ongoing Russian invasion in Ukraine.

In the context of the ongoing war, on the same day there was a telephone conversation between the leaders of Ukraine and Hungary, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Viktor Orban. As informed by the spokesman of the Hungarian Prime Minister Bertalan Havasiduring the meeting all important aspects of Hungarian-Ukrainian relations were discussed, and the main topic of the conversation was the issue of the ongoing war.

– We are ready to contribute to all initiatives and efforts leading to peace in Ukraine, the Hungarian Prime Minister told Zelensky.

Orban and Zelensky they also agreed to continue the current bilateral consultations, which have been ongoing since the end of January.

In Uzhgorod in the Ukrainian Transcarpathia, a meeting took place between Peter Szijjarto and the head of Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine also participated. Dmytro Kułeba.

At the beginning of April, after meeting with Kułaba, the Hungarian politician assessed that there had been some progress in Hungarian-Ukrainian relations. Budapest, however, still believes that Kiev has not done enough to restore the rights of the approximately 100,000-strong Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia.

Let us remind you, the Hungarian-Ukrainian conflict has been ongoing since 2017. The disputes began with the adoption of a new education law. It was about the rights of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia, which, according to the authorities, limited the right to education in their native language. The meetings of the NATO-Ukraine commission were blocked by Hungary for years, and in April talks began about supporting Kiev in the amount of EUR 100 billion, which would be financed by NATO members.

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