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FM Szijjártó: EU keeps wants a military solution to the Ukraine war
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Though it has finally been acknowledged at a meeting of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council that the global majority wants immediate peace in Ukraine, most member states continue to urge a military solution to the war, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Luxembourg on Monday.
The war continues to claim many lives, and the possibility of increasingly grave natural disasters is arising, Szijjártó told a press conference during a break in a meeting with his EU counterparts, according to a ministry statement. Also, the danger of nuclear accidents is being talked about more and more openly, he added.
“All of these facts prove that there is no solution to this war on the battlefield,” Szijjártó said. “We’ve been saying this for a very long time, and unfortunately I have to tell you that the daily tragically sad developments are proving us right.”
“This war cannot be resolved on the battlefield, only through negotiations,” Szijjártó said. “But in spite of this, it unfortunately became clear again at today’s Foreign Affairs Council meeting that the vast majority of member states and the European Union itself insists on a military solution.”
“Although, after sixteen months, it has been acknowledged at the Council meeting that the global majority wants immediate peace, but despite this acknowledgement, they continue to urge a military solution in the European Union,” the minister said.
Szijjártó said those who favoured a solution to the war on the battlefield over a diplomatic settlement bore responsibility for the growing casualties and natural disasters, which he said would increase the price of reconstruction likely to be spearheaded by Europe.
But, he said, serious questions needed to be put on the agenda before any decision was made about how reconstruction would be financed and how it would affect the development funding of member states.
Meanwhile, Szijjártó noted a fresh report by the Venice Commission declaring that Ukraine failed to meet its obligations regarding the rights of national minorities.
High time for Mr. Szijjártó to bestow upon Belarusian Foreign Minister Mr. Aleinik one of our Commander’s Cross with Star of the Hungarian Order of Merit – as he did with Russia’s Mr. Lavrov in November of 2022 … Yes. AFTER the start of the “special military operation”.
I guess you can’t blame them as they add so little as the US has put in over
160 000 million that much of it seems unaccounted for. Putin is probably the most stable thing about Russia- destroy him and your asking for big trouble. Russia is not going away. The EU and the US are major players in the breakdown in the area. Interesting the two people rarely mentioned here is Soro and Biden. You should ask the US ambassador if the payments made by Romania go to the US embassy or directly to one of many Biden crime family accounts.
Nobody insists a military solution. Szijjártó should just ask his friends to order their troops out of Ukraine and pay for the damage they caused. Instead he asks everyone to let Russia have its way. Pathetic.