Hungary has significant role in NATO, says foreign minister
Hungary’s role in NATO is more significant than ever, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Sunday, ahead of a summit of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Szijjártó told a press conference in Brussels that Hungary is slated to take over the leadership of KFOR, NATO’s operation in Kosovo and the alliance’s largest operation on land, in November.
Hungary has raised the number of its troops to 500 men in Kosovo and has pledged to coordinate KFOR staff’s vaccination against the coronavirus, he said. Meanwhile, it is providing ventilators for its “partners in the east and south” through NATO’s coronavirus relief fund, he said.
Hungary will also play a leading role in a joint air defence operation in the Baltic states next year, he said.
Honouring a commitment made at the 2014 NATO summit,
Hungary will raise its defence spending to 2 percent of GDP by 2024,
Szijjártó said. Defence spending will come to 1.6 percent of GDP in 2021 and 1.87 percent in 2022, he added.
The summit is held at a time of shifting political and economic relations which warrant a new approach from the alliance, Szijjártó said.
“Those changes have significant security aspects, and so Hungary supports the new NATO 2030 strategy,” he said.
Orbán discusses defence cooperation with Erdogan
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels on Sunday, ahead of a NATO summit, the prime minister’s press chief told MTI on Sunday.
Orbán and Erdogan discussed bilateral military and defence industry cooperation and strengthening economic and trade ties.
The Hungarian and Turkish foreign ministers, Peter Szijjarto and Mevlut Cavusoglu, also attended the meeting.
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Source: MTI
Don’t do it Hungary. Your setting yourself up once again to be on the wrong side of another disasterous world war siding with The USA and the globalist. Can you not see that the USA and NATO are being set up for a hard fail by the globalist forces inside the European Union and in elsewhere. Do you need to find yourself once again under occupation after WW3? Hungary and all the Former Iron Curtain nations would serve themselves well by leaving NATO and becoming Neutral countries. I am not advocating disarmament. I am advocating not hitchen your wagon to the USA and NATO.
@Mike Hall
You may be correct or you may be wrong. Ever think that the Globalist are coming from the wests perspectives and your already engulfed in it. Hungary may have a spot in deciding who it wants to go with later after discovering just how communist and autocratic the BLIND West have become….