Hungary backs Trump’s legacy in the Middle East

Hungary remains dedicated to the expansion of the Abraham Accords on Arab-Israeli normalisation and it is ready to participate in promoting the process, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday.

The ministry cited Szijjártó telling the Peace of Westphalia conference in Münster that the treaty signed 375 years ago made state sovereignty the main principle of international relations and it was still highly important to Hungary. Hungary has always lost out on conflicts between East and West and it is based on this historical experience that the government argues in support of civilised cooperation and peace between blocs today, he said.

Szijjártó told a panel discussion on the Middle East peace process that “to put it simply, the government’s position is that war is bad and peace is good”. It is at the negotiating table that one should seek to resolve all armed conflicts because in the battlefield there is only death and destruction, he added. He criticised the fact that in the case of wars outside the continent, the Foreign Affairs Council had always called for immediate dialogue and ceasefire, but the approach to Ukraine was completely different.