Hungary ready to become ‘pillar in the bridge’ between East and West
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The Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) forms a bridge between East and West, and Hungary is ready to become a “European pillar in this bridge”, the foreign minister said in Astana on Friday.
The ministry cited Péter Szijjártó telling a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OTS that global security was currently in the worst condition since the end of the Cold War. A war has been under way in Ukraine for more than 18 months and there is no progress towards peace, he said.
“A number of European leaders unfortunately still suffer from war psychosis, thinking that a solution can be found on the battlefield,” he said. “We Hungarians would like to avoid further losses and destruction in Ukraine,” he added.
Additionally, a new armed conflict has started in Israel, in the direct vicinity of the continent, where the main task of the international community is avoiding a war between states, he said.
The growing threat of terror in Europe is a direct consequence of the migration policy forced by Brussels, which has resulted in parallel societies in a number of western European countries, he added.
He also noted the sanctions against Russia, which he said resulted in “a continual crisis of energy security”.
Szijjártó expressed regret over a deterioration in Europe’s competitiveness, stating that a proof of this deterioration was that last year China overtook second position in the global list of countries ranked by GDP.
Some European leaders have clearly made mistakes because the former model of economic growth built on the combination of highly developed western technology with easily accessible and relatively cheap eastern energy had collapsed, he said.
A gesture from Kazakhstan: Sándor Petőfi Street in Astana.