Hungary reaffirms Belarus partnership, advocates peace in Ukraine at Minsk meeting
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Further developing Hungary-Beralus economic and energy cooperation in areas not affected by sanctions is an important common goal, the foreign minister said in Minsk on Thursday.
The ministry cited Péter Szijjártó telling a joint press conference with Belarus counterpart Maxim Ryzhenkov that the global security situation was currently in its worst shape since the Second World War, so stabilisation would be important.
“The recent period has proved that wars cannot be resolved on the battleground … this only leads to more deaths and greater destruction,” he added.
“The solution instead must be sought at the negotiation table. This is why we Hungarians call for ceasefire and peace in Ukraine, and the road to peace lies through peace talks,” he said.
He added that Hungary had been living in the shadow of war for a thousand days, directly feeling the negative impacts of the war day by day, despite the fact that Hungary had no responsibility at all for the outbreak of the war.
“We Hungarians want to live in peace. The pro-peace position here in Europe is in a minority considering the political leaders but this should not mislead us, because in the global space, pro-peace countries are in sweeping majority,” he said.
He said he believed “the world is racing to its own destruction, with some trying to tell others who they should speak and meet with”.
“First of all, it is our sovereign right to hold talks with anyone we want to. Secondly, I believe that if we close the channels of communications and cut diplomatic ties, then we would only kill the hope for peace,” he said.
“So, we will continue to work in the future on keeping the channels of diplomacy open and maintaining dialogue,” he added.
Commenting on bilateral relations, he said that further developing Hungary-Belarus economic and energy cooperation in areas not affected by sanctions was an important common goal. “It is our national interest, and we will not give it up,” he added.
Oh no! Peace!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! We need an endless war that profits nobody except the globalist-socialist elites and their proteges, used as an excuse to drastically reduce the quality of life of the ordinary people!
Belarus allowed Russia to use its territory to launch its invasion of Ukraine. Every participant at that meeting including the a-holes from Hungary are there to attack Ukraine and promote Russian war. This was a collection of the enemies of Europe who met.
At this moment Russia has 8000 North Korean soldiers in Russian uniforms at the Ukrainian border about to attack. Russia is a menace to us all and we better defend ourselves by assisting Ukraine. Hungary works for Russia and has become a traitor country doing great harm to European security.