Foreign minister shared when Hungary would allow Sweden to join the NATO
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Sweden needs show respect in its bilateral ties with Hungary, and lawmakers of the Hungarian parliament will most certainly be ready to speed up the ratification of its NATO membership, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Montenegro’s Budva on Friday.
Addressing the To Be Secure (2BS) annual security policy conference, the foreign minister pointed out that the Hungarian government had submitted the ratification documents to parliament last year. “The decision is now in the hands of the national assembly,” Szijjártó said, according to a statement by the ministry.
He told the forum that Hungarian MPs had obtained their mandates “in a democratic race” in the general elections, many of whom represented the governing parties for the fourth, fifth, even for the sixth time. The people voted for them, and they have been working for decades to represent their interests, Szijjártó said.
“Despite of all this, they must be listening constantly to claims made from a distance of several hundred kilometres that they have won their mandates in a non-democratic, illegitimate, autocratic and dictatorial procedure,” he said. The foreign minister called it “unacceptable and offensive” that while Sweden kept urging the ratification of the country’s NATO membership, it constantly repeated that Hungary was not a democracy.
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In connection with the war in Ukraine, Szijjártó reiterated the government’s position that Hungary was “in a special situation” because of the 155,000 ethnic Hungarians living in western Ukraine’s Transcarpathian region, many of whom fight and die in the front. “We Hungarians do not want that many more people, many more ethnic Hungarians should die,” he said.
Sweden supplied Hungary’s entire fighter jet fleet to defend Hungary. Orban, Szijjarto and the rest of the Fidesz band of clowns turn around and back stab Sweden by obstructing NATO membership. What kind of people return like that the biggest favour given to Hungary? Putin pushes a button in the Kremlin and Orban and Szijjarto act on his commands.