NATO to set up new headquarters office in Hungary, says Stoltenberg
Brussels, October 8 (MTI) – NATO will set up new command centres in Hungary and Slovakia, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Thursday.
The new offices will be set up to complement the six existing command centres in eastern Europe, Stoltenberg said.
The radical nationalist Jobbik party condemned “the government’s offer” to NATO to set up a command centre in Szekesfehervar, in central Hungary, to coordinate rapid deployment forces. The party argued that rapid deployment forces and their command centres are primary targets during an armed attack.
They said setting up such a facility in Hungary would only increase the security risk that “the government already exposed the country to” when it agreed to take part in patrolling Baltic airspace.
Jobbik called on the government to “put an end to serving interests which violate Hungary’s sovereignty”. They said the government should not take on commitments pertaining to conflicts which “put our country in needless danger”. The party called on the government to “stand up for Hungarian interests” rather than allow Hungary to “once again become a battlefield of foreign countries”.
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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Although i favour Fidesz in the norm, this one point of Jobbiks “put an end to serving interests which violate Hungary’s sovereignty’, I have to agree with. We don’t want to allow the chance of Hungary becoming the pothole of any unnecessary conflict. It falls in line with Hungary’s ascension into NATO where it was stated that no US or Russian soldiers would be stationed in Hungary.