Will Hungary be kicked out of the NATO? US bipartisan delegation comes, FM Szijjártó saber-rattling
On Sunday, February 18, a bipartisan delegation of United States Senators will travel to Hungary on a mission focused on strategic issues confronting NATO and Hungary. According to the Embassy of the USA, the delegation will include:
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen, co-chair of the Senate NATO Observer Group, member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and Committee on Appropriations;
- Senator Thom Tillis, co-chair of the Senate NATO Observer Group;
- Senator Chris Murphy, member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and Committee on Appropriations; and
- Senator Chris Van Hollen, member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and Committee on Appropriations.
Not worth it for visiting US senators to try to pressure Hungary, says foreign minister
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said a US congressional delegation scheduled to visit Hungary this weekend should not try to put pressure on the country, underlining that Hungary “is a sovereign country”.
Answering a question at a press conference on Friday in connection with a planned visit by a bipartisan delegation of US senators to Hungary, Szijjarto said the government welcomed the senators just as it did every foreign visitor.
“We’re glad that they’re coming, because they’ll be able to see with their own eyes that everything they read about Hungary in the liberal American media is a blatant lie,” Szijjarto said. “And so, they’ll be able to see with their own eyes that we here in Hungary are in no way an obstacle to Hungarian-American cooperation and its improvement.”
An incomplete American mission?
“They’ll see how excellent economic cooperation is between the two countries and they’ll get to see the beauties of the country, so we welcome the US congressmen the same way we welcome any other foreign visitor,” the minister said.
“If they’re coming with the purpose of telling us how we ought to live or what decisions we ought to make, I wouldn’t recommend that because that would definitely be — as they say — an incomplete mission, so it wouldn’t be worth it,” he added.
Szijjarto said he was not aware of the senators having any plans to meet anyone from Hungary’s government sector, noting that their counterparts were the Hungarian members of parliament. “I don’t know if there will be any meetings there,” he said.
We await the Swedish prime minister’s visit
He said the reason why it was not worth trying to put pressure on Hungary was because it “is a sovereign country, and we think a sovereign country shouldn’t put pressure on others, especially if it’s an ally”.
Szijjarto said the Hungarian national assembly was the sovereign parliament of a sovereign country, and its decisions were not based on visits by congressional delegations.
“Our position on the ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership is clear,” Szijjarto said. “We await the Swedish prime minister’s visit to Hungary. I think that if he was able to visit Turkiye during the ratification process, then he can also pay us a visit.”
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If Hungary is so sovereign country, why dont Hungarian politicians just leave NATO and EU? Apparently Hungary doesn’t need anyone. Selfish as heck in my opinion
Mr. Jose, their mouth needs nobody but their ego and blatant rethoric, but their pockets do desperately need EU money and western investments. It is only through that money that Orban can feed his apparat, his oligarch friends and his own amd his family’s huge appetite.
Hungary: we think a sovereign country shouldn’t put pressure on others, especially if it’s an ally
Also Hungary: we want the Swedish prime minister to come here and beg us.
The Law is the Law, it is not an “Ass” like “Sprays” out the mouth on to regular basics from the Foreign Minister of the Orban Government – Peter Szijjarto.
It is LAW.
Membership of the European Union, in membership, the practice of a member country – retaining it’s SOVEREIGNTY in completeness that over-rides the LAWS of the membership of the European Union is NOT – Law.
Hungary continues the WRONGFULNESS it’s thinking application and practice – that Sovereignty first – then the Laws of the European Union doing somewhat of a “juggling match” – in an attempt to comply, which we know has been a humiliating failure by the Orban led Government.
In membership of the European Union a country agrees to abstain – forgo – parts of or all of its Laws – pertaining relating to it’s SOVEREIGNTY.
This ABSTAINING – or mental blockage practiced by Hungary that STILL places Sovereignty over signed and agreed LAWS under DEMOCRACY in being a Member of the European Union – WRONG.
Hungary please leave NATO so the rest of us can work on the defence of Europe without your Kremlin directed interference. Szijjarto’s comments made before the arrival of the American delegation were not those of an ally. Hungary is a lost cause. It should be kicked out of NATO for everyone’s sake.
NATO, US and the EU are responsible for most of the young men killed in Ukraine.
There bipartisan WAR HAWKS. The majority of the US wants to stop the billions that continue to go to UKraine.
EU biggest members now have the revolt of the farmers going on for weeks- it’s even making big news in he US-not a mention here..