Hungary, alongside Russia and the USA, refused to vote in the UN to condemn Russian aggression

On the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine, a sharp rift emerged between the United States and its allies, according to a New York Times article. In recent days, Russia has launched one of its most significant attacks on Ukraine to show that it is the aggressor and not seeking peace, but Hungary has remained silent on the issue. Russian aggression is acceptable to the Hungarian government.
On Monday, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution condemning Russian aggression against Ukraine, but the decision was not unanimous. 18 countries, including the United States, Russia, and Hungary, did not vote for the resolution. The Russian delegate voted against it, while the US and Hungarian delegates abstained.
Moscow’s brutal attack on another sovereign country did not go unchallenged, as the majority of European countries voted in favour, but the complexity of the situation is illustrated by the fact that the new US foreign policy, represented by US President Donald Trump, goes against the wishes of the majority of allies. The US did table another resolution, which was rejected, but it did not mention Russian aggression or condemn the invasion, instead it spoke of the losses on both sides and efforts to achieve lasting peace. It seems that the new US administration does not believe that Russia attacked Ukraine, which is surprising given the facts.
The three-page resolution calling for Russia’s withdrawal, adopted by the UN General Assembly, also called for a ‘comprehensive, lasting and just peace’, but included a call for Russia to be held accountable for its war crimes.
As we wrote yesterday, Hungary a ‘co-author’ of US draft peace resolution at the UN, the foreign minister said.
Hungary urges renewed Russian-US disarmament talks
Hungary’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, said on Tuesday that the country will urge efforts “to rebuild mutual trust” at the United Nations disarmament conference in Geneva.
Szijjártó said in a post on Facebook that Hungary had been “in the shadow of war” for the past three years. “Weapons worth hundreds of billions of euros and dollars have been poured into it and open references have been made to the possible use of nuclear weapons,” he said.

“No one knows what will happen to the awesome amount of weaponry when the war is, hopefully, over. Who will use them in future, where, and against whom?” “The longer the war goes on and the more weapons there are, the more people will die,” Szijjártó said. “Hungary and the peace-loving part of the world have an interest in seeing resumed US-Russian dialogue leading to the resumption of the disarmament process,” he said.
“This will need mutual trust once more. I will urge the rebuilding of that trust … in Geneva today,” the minister added.
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