Hungary will support any pro-peace initiative that can put an end to almost a thousand days of suffering in Ukraine, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said at a UN Security Council meeting in New York focused on Ukraine, insisting that the question was not “what we think about the war, but how to establish peace” in the quickest possible timeframe. He said there was no solution on the battlefield.
At the meeting on Tuesday evening local time, Szijjártó said that Hungary had direct experiences of the negative consequences of the conflict in its neighbourhood and had paid a high price for the war over the past two and a half years, even though it bore no responsibility for its outbreak.
“We Hungarians … do not want further destruction [or] suffering, and we do not want more people to die”, especially given “the significant Hungarian community living in Ukraine”. Arms shipments, he added, would not bring the end of the war any closer, while more and more weapons on both sides only led to more casualties and the growing risk of escalation under the shadow of nuclear weapons.
Photo: FB/Szijjártó
No solution on the battlefield, the foreign minister believes
“We Hungarians argue for a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations. We Hungarians believe that this is the fastest way to peace,” he said.
“What has happened so far proves that there is no solution on the battlefield…” he added.
Putin and Orbán in July in Moscow. The Hungarian prime minister was on a so-called “peace mission”, but with no apparent success. Photo: FB/Orbán
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Szijjarto never misses an opportunity to push Russian propaganda to undermine Ukraine’s defence while the Fidesz government takes all steps possible to block Ukraine militarily. Promises have been made and bribes paid for sure by Putin.
If “winning on the battlefield” is the benchmark, Russia is hardly delivering.
We are well over a month into Ukraine´s incursion into Russia, and a lot of ordinance appears to be blowing up on Mr. Putin´s side of the border. The “Tough Response! Red lines!” rhetoric has uh. Well. Russia evacuated a lot of people. And attacked Ukrainian civilians, for a change. Deserving of some “Respect!”, as Mr. Szijjártó likes to talk about? Non-combatant lives, mind you.