NATO summit: PM Orbán urges peace over weapons in Ukraine
Peace, rather than weapons are needed in Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a video posted on Facebook on Tuesday.
The prime minister highlighted the Russia-Ukraine war as the most important topic on the agenda of the two-day NATO summit that began in Vilnius.
“The Hungarian position which we will be representing is unchanged: it is peace, rather than weapons, that should be delivered to Ukraine,” Orbán said, calling for a ceasefire and an urgent start to peace talks.
“The Hungarian position is clear, since the war is happening next door to us and because of the Hungarians living in Transcarpathia, tens of thousands of Hungarians are in direct danger,” he said.
Hungary wants NATO to stick to its earlier position, he said, arguing that NATO was a defence alliance. It was established to protect its member states, not to carry out military operations on other countries’ territories, Orbán said.
Hungary’s position is currently fully in line with that of NATO, as the alliance is not sending troops or weapons and is not training troops for combat, but is focused on bolstering the defence capabilities of its own members, he said.
“This is necessary, it is correct and Hungary will support this,” the prime minister said.
Orbán holds talks with S Korea President Yoon
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed opportunities for boosting cooperation between Hungary and South Korea with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on the sidelines of the ongoing NATO summit.
The two leaders were in agreement that South Korea has been one of the biggest foreign investors in Hungary in recent years, with the two countries having achieved new records in bilateral trade, Bertalan Havasi told MTI.
Orbán reaffirmed Hungary’s intention of further boosting economic ties in areas such as nuclear energy and the defence industry.
Orbán and Yoon highlighted their countries’ “deep-rooted” relations, saying Hungary and South Korea should further strengthen their cooperation in education and culture as well.
Szijjárto: Orbán , Erdogan discuss Sweden’s accession
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have discussed Sweden’s accession to NATO and will continue to hold talks on the matter, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.
“A historic NATO summit is under way in Vilnius where we will most certainly succeed in making a responsible decision with which we will avoid escalating the war,” Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook.
Meanwhile, he said Ukraine was not getting either an invitation or a timetable to join the alliance.
Source: MTI
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What has Orban done to stop weapons flow to Russia from Iran? Has he called on Iran to stop them? Has Orban told Putin to stop attacking Ukraine? What has he done to stop Russian aggression? What right does Orban have to tell any nation not to defend itself from an invader and what right does Orban have to tell others not to help that nation to defend itself? Orban preaches defeatism to allow Russia to occupy Ukraine. As long as Ukrainians wish to resist the enemy it is none of Orban’s business to stop them nor to stop others from helping Ukraine.
What right does Ukraine have over Transcarpathia, a part of Hungary until after WWII?
Supporting war is supporting Ukrainian’s people dying on a daily basis.
EU/US make strong economic and political sanctions against Russia, based on this war should be already stopped by a ceasefire. The withdrawal of Russian troups could be already negotiate during a ceasefire with the existing sanctions and more possible sanctions, diplomatic future of the region which called for independence as referendum could be applied. Why the liberation of Ukraine is not discussed at a table but weapons are sent every day ? Ukrainians live didn’t matter more than US economic interests to weaken and isolated Russia ? This war create an economic opportunity for US and the price of this opportunity is ukrainiens life which is a free expendable for Biden Administration. Did CIA placed an actor able to follow a script when they orchester a coup d’état in Ukraine ? Yes. Did the Ukrainian gouvernement bombard the independentist region ? Yes. Did a military action of Russia was needed ? Probably not further than defending the independentist region until the international community recognise the massacre made by Zelinsky gouvernement. This war is not a Disney it’s not the good warrior of light in yellow and blue against the bad darkness assassin in white blue red. This war is a geopolitical game for economic and influence reasons lead by superpower country where Ukrainian and Russians people die for everyday and covered by propaganda media to keep the public opinion about the truthful and rightful of one side against the other.
Stop thinking there’s the good in a side and the bad in another, and if you really want to ask who start this war ? The reply is probably USA by his interference in the region. Because the real question is always : Who make profit on what happened ? And where the money is going ? And USA are the one winning a lot and losing nothing.
Final exemple : US support the creation to judge russian as war criminal at the end of the war. But no-one will ask them to go in court for killing thousands of children and women in Afghanistan, Syria, Irak, Koweït, etc.
OK – no reams from me. As per usual, no constructive ideas towards our Politicians “Peace!” cries.
Do recommend the following video – I know it is longer than 10 minutes and has no direct bearing on the Russia-Ukraine war, however I did find it quite insightful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnvJzup8i-c
One of the reasons why pro-fascist regimes exist in Russia and Hungary is that their societies have not been cured of their imperialist worldview since WW2. What we have is what we have…. fascist Russia is trying to revive its empire by destroying Ukraine. After reading the comments, the situation in Hungary is similar, the society is sick of imperialism.