Government: NATO, Hungary in full agreement
As regards the war in Ukraine, NATO and Hungary are in full agreement, Tamás Menczer, the foreign ministry state secretary for communications, told public current affairs channel M1 on Friday.
Menczer noted that NATO has underlined that it is not a participant in the conflict, and it wants to ensure that the war does not spill over Ukraine’s borders. Moreover, NATO, as an organisation, is not supplying arms. Hungary, he said, fully supports this position. Armed conflict must not be allowed to break out between NATO and Russia, he added.
He noted that the biggest humanitarian mobilisation in Hungary’s history, the Bridge to Transcarpathia programme, was under way, with the government cooperating with the six big charities which have received a total of 3 billion forints (EUR 7.9m) to carry out their work.
Speaking later to public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, Menczer said that despite Hungary’s humanitarian efforts, the Ukrainian president and his government were criticising the Hungarian election results and “the decision of the people”, and referring to totalitarian regimes in terms of Hungary acting as their accomplice. This, he added, was “unacceptable”. For this reason, the Ukrainian ambassador was summoned, and this was made clear to the ambassador, the state secretary said.
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Source: MTI
Ukraine war: Poland’s Kaczynski surprises by slamming Hungarian ally Orban on Ukraine – an extract taken from Euronews
The leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party has used surprisingly strong words to criticise his ally, Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Jaroslaw Kaczyński said he has an “unequivocally negative” opinion of Orbán’s refusal to condemn Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the invasion of Ukraine.
“When Prime Minister Orbán says that he cannot see clearly what has happened in Bucha, then he should be advised to go and see an eye doctor,” Kaczyński said on private Radio Plus on Friday.
The leader of the Law and Justice or PiS party also slammed the Hungarian leader for saying that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is one of his “opponents”.
The condemnation comes after years of close strategic cooperation between Poland’s and Hungary’s right-wing governments. The two European Union member states have supported each other in their separate rule of law disputes with Brussels.
But Kaczyński said Orbán’s attitude toward the war in Ukraine was “very sad” and a “disappointment.”