FM Szijjártó talks about “Golden Age” to come in US-Hungary relationship

Cooperation between Hungary and the US stands before “great opportunities and a new golden age after the nearly unprecedented destruction wrought by former ambassador David Pressman”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Friday.

According to a ministry statement, Péter Szijjártó said in an interview with commercial news channel HírTV that Pressman had “pushed Hungarian-US bilateral cooperation to a historic low which is especially apparent after they thrived under former ambassador David Cornstein.”

Szijjártó said cooperation was on the verge of a “new golden age” as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President-elect Donald Trump “are clearly political allies. They have the same approach to the great challenges of the world, and have similar stances on great political issues.”

Referring to Pressman, Szijjártó said that the past years had shown “the difference between a lieutenant sent by George Soros and a real ambassador”.

“We send and receive ambassadors to make cooperation with the country in question better and more successful so that both countries can profit from it. David Pressman was here not to boost relations between Hungary and the US but to try to push the patriotic, conservative, Christian Democrat Hungarian government towards pro-war, pro-migration and pro-gender politics,” he said.

Hungary awaits the new ambassador “with joy and respect”, and is ready to work to lift political cooperation “from historic lows to historic highs”, Szijjártó said. “We have every chance of that, as our defence and economic cooperation is excellent and the leaders of the two countries are soon going to be political allies,” Szijjártó said.

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