National Defence Day in Hungary celebrated today
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A shared remembrance “of our past allows us to recommit ourselves to continuing the thousand-year journey in defense of the Hungarian nation”, the defence minister said marking National Defence Day on Tuesday.
“Looking into the past, we see huge military achievements, such as the thousand-year-old state of St. Stephen, whose military heroes made surviving through victories and defeats possible…” Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky said at the ceremony in Buda Castle.
“And then there’s the Hungarian Armed Forces established at the birth of the modern Hungarian nation, which has been at the service of the nation in times of peace, war, oppression and freedom.”
He said it was up to the government and diplomacy to ensure that the most important decisions in the life of the nation were still made in the nation’s capital.
“But in these times we have to be especially careful that nothing that goes against our fundamental national interests can be forced on us,”
he said, emphasising that defence played an important part in this.
