Hungarian FM Szijjártó: Polish FM is “also sticking to provocation”

International diplomacy has gained strength since the Hungarian “peace mission”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Monday.

Szijjártó talks about Hungarian ‘peace mission’

“Finally more and more people are speaking to each other, and this is good news, because the way to peace is through negotiations,” Szijjártó said on Facebook.

He said China’s foreign minister and the US secretary of state had held talks at a recent ASEAN forum, and the Russian foreign minister had also spoken with his South Korean counterpart.

“It would be good if the Europeans also noticed this, but it appears that understanding is slower here.” the minister said.

Szijjártó said Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was “also sticking to provocation”, adding that he was “used to this”, as they sit next to each other in EU Foreign Affairs Council meetings.

He added, however, that Sikorski had “crossed another line by lying” when he had said that the Hungarian foreign minister had backed his “nonsensical proposal” for the next informal meeting of EU foreign ministers to be held in Ukraine.

Szijjártó said that in reality he had immediately objected to the proposal at the meeting, adding that there would not be a Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Ukraine.

“And we’ll continue working on restoring the long-term security of our oil supply,” he said, adding that on Monday morning he had again spoken with his Russian and Slovak counterparts, Sergey Lavrov and Juraj Blanar.

Szijjártó said he maintained that Ukraine was in breach of its association agreement with the EU by “endangering the security of our energy supply”.

He said they were constantly analysing the possible legal and technical solutions that “guarantee our unimpeded oil supply regardless of the Ukrainian transit ban”.

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