FM Szijjártó: Peace is easier to achieve with negotiations
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The chance for achieving peace is “far greater” with negotiations, re-opening diplomatic channels and dialogue than with weapons deliveries, sanctions and a strategy based on diplomatic refusal, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said in a telephone interview with public radio broadcast on Sunday.
Szijjártó said it was now “apparent to everybody” that the strategy of Europe and the United States over the past two and a half years didn’t work, even though Western politicians wouldn’t say so in public because that would be an admission of failure.
Sanctions were a “shot in the foot, then the knee, then the chest” for the European economy, while European and American weapons deliveries didn’t change the situation on the battlefield and didn’t bring the war any nearer to a close, he added.
Szijjártó said there was no solution on the battlefield and that resolution needed to be sought at the negotiating table and by opening diplomatic channels. He added that restoring the legitimacy of dialogue for peace was “extraordinarily important”.
Addressing Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s talks in the past week, Szijjártó said no politician, especially a European one, could have done what the prime minister did. Besides Hungary’s prime minister, European politicians who can talk to everybody, who are welcomed everywhere and accepted as negotiating partners are no more, he added.
Lets hope Russia will soon stop its pro-war policy and agree to attend peace talks instead of refusing to negotiate for peace.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-diplomat-says-moscow-wont-attend-second-ukraine-peace-summit-2024-07-11/
I thought Mr. Putin already explained Mr. Orbán the prerequisites? Just relinquish any claims to Crimea, complete withdrawal from Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions (not all of which are currently occupied by Russian forces), and Ukraine must abandon any NATO ambitions.
“Peace!” – at what price? And will Russia stop, there? I believe we know the answer.
Capitulate – is the Putin line to the Ukraine.
Then we can maybe have DIALOGUE.
Orban was told that, Szijjarto – knows that and no doubt, being the “Gofer” that he is, has been told to “talk the talk” out of the Kremlin – supporting the Orban – Fidesz Government of Hungary – in what the Kremlin want expect of Hungary, through partnership and relationship – COMMUNICATED out.