VIDEO: Ukrainian President Zelensky persuaded PM Orbán in Buenos Aires?
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met and exchanged a few words as suggested by photos and footage made at the inauguration ceremony of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
Asked by MTI, Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister’s press chief, quoted Orbán as telling Zelensky that “members of the European Union are in continuous talks” concerning the subject of Ukraine’s EU integration. The talk between the two leader lasted only 20 seconds and came after they were put next to each other before taking the official inauguration photo. The government-close media says Zelensky tries to persuade Orbán to support Ukraine’s EU integration. Therefore, he uses even ‘pathetic’ methods.
⚡️President Volodymyr #Zelensky briefly spoke with the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor #Orban, during the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected President of #Argentina, as reported by European Pravda.
The details of the conversation are not known. pic.twitter.com/BJjXbPaf8A
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) December 10, 2023
Government: Ukraine’s EU accession ‘EUR 183 billion issue’
Ukraine’s EU integration “is a 70,000 billion forint issue”, yet “Brussels would make a decision with unprecedented speed and without giving sufficient information”, a state secretary of the prime minister’s cabinet office told public radio on Sunday.
Csaba Dömötör said it was not clear “why some decision makers and out of what expectations would they want to see Ukraine in the EU before other countries having a candidate status for decades.” “The most serious questions are yet to be answered,” he added.
Hungarians need to ask themselves whether they would like to have the Russian army on their border or a fellow EU state. Why is that choice not clear to Orban? Perhaps he prefers the Russian army. Is Hungary an EU and NATO ally or is Hungary an ally of Russia.?
Corruption and war make Ukraine an undesirable EU partner. The result of Ukraine membership would result in expansion of the war. Why would Hungary support a country that oppresses Hungarian minority in Ukraine? It is time for people to accept the fact that there is peaceful co-existence, even with Russia.