Orbán cabinet: ‘Pro-war’ leaders meet in Paris to prevent peace in Ukraine
“Pro-war, anti-Donald Trump” European leaders will meet in Paris on Monday to try and thwart achieving peace in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Astana.
According to a ministry statement, Szijjártó said at a press conference held jointly with his Kazakh counterpart Murat Nurtleu that with the inauguration of United States President Donald Trump a completely new reality had emerged in world politics that would benefit both Hungary and Kazakhstan.
“We are talking about two countries that have always advocated a pro-peace position and pursued a patriotic, sovereigntist political strategy,” he said. “They have always stood on the ground of normalcy and considered the national interest the topmost priority.”
For that position both countries had become the target of the international liberal mainstream’s attacks, but from now on mutual respect would serve as the basis of international relations, because the new US president has “shut off the financial resources for a political direction based on intervention,” he said.
Szijjártócalled an early conclusion to the war in Ukraine a shared interest, because Hungary and Kazakhstan had been seriously harmed by the conflict, adding that Donald Trump and his pro-peace policies could ensure the best chance for such conclusion.
“Therefore we welcome that the Russian-American dialogue has restarted at the highest level,” Szijjártó said. “We have learnt with joy and relief that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have had a long conversation. We have also learnt with joy and relief that as a follow up to those talks the two foreign ministers, Marco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov, also discussed Russian-American ties and future opportunities for settlement in Ukraine.”
He said Hungary had made similar efforts to keep communication channels open during the past few years, for which it was subject to constant attacks from the West. “We were labelled Russian propagandists and spies just because we advocated a diplomatic solution … and clearly declared that this conflict could not be resolved on the battlefield,” he said.
By now Hungary had been proven right, he said, and expressed hope that the Russian-American talks would be fruitful and peace could soon come to Ukraine.
“But we see that in Europe those that do not want peace are on the move. The pro-war camp is getting organised in Europe. They will meet in Paris today,” he said. “The ones meeting in Paris are those that have been constantly adding fuel to the fire. Pro-war countries that have pursued an ill-advised strategy in the past three years, whose policies have brought about the danger of escalation.”
“In addition, those countries have made a habit of berating Donald Trump in recent years … in Paris, therefore, pro-war, anti-Trump, frustrated European leaders will meet, who want to prevent a peace agreement in Ukraine,” he added.
“Contrary to those leaders we support Donald Trump’s efforts … and support the American-Russian talks, and wish for there to be peace in Ukraine,” he said.
As we wrote last Friday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview that Hungary does not need to leave the EU because it will fall apart; read details HERE.
Also, we wrote yesterday that Hungary is under scrutiny as the European Parliament sends an urgent fact-finding delegation to assess the rule of law, read details HERE.
UPDATE
Orbán cabinet: Paris summit ‘a meeting of losers’
According to some ‘smart” Hungarians, hungary did not have choice but was dragged to the 2 world wars in the past. Now even when they applied and now belong to nato and ue, they do now want to have any moral obligation to put peacemaker troops in ukraine. Why does Hungary just leave and isolate itself just like USA is doint it? Such an oportunistic country in my opinion
Hungary – just on World Wars 1 and 11 – and HISTORY never LIES, has BACKED the WRONG side to be “in bed” with.
Orban and his Fidesz Government, the SLAUGHTERMEN of Hungary, are repeating History.
Szijjarto’s comments are in unbelievably bad faith. Everybody wants peace, no matter which side of the political spectrum you hail from, Europe’s leaders are understandably concerned by JD Vance’s belligerent posturing in Munich fearing that the US will arrange the terms of a peace deal they’ve had no involvement in and their militaries and taxpayers are thereafter on the hook to enforce the terms of the peace treaty, moreover, that it might be an unworkable accord and lead to further conflict in the foreseeable future. In the process of hastening peace in Ukraine, the US appears to be declaring war on the whole of Europe and Hungary is implicated up to its neck in all this as a member of NATO, the EU and a neighbour of Ukraine. A bad deal could cost Hungary very dearly in more ways than one, all at a time when they don’t have a spare cent in the treasury, unlike more solvent European countries.
From the beginning Hungary has stood openly with russia and worked tirelessly to ensure russian victory.
When Orban or Szijjarto say ‘peace’ what they mean is ‘Ukrainian surrender’.
Why does Hungary want to be a russian satellite again?
How much longer before Orban starts talking about 1989 as a ‘fascist takeover’?
Fidesz is a band of criminal traitors owned by Putin. Hungarians are sheep who do what they are told and try not to think too much about what their traitor leaders feed them.
There’s an old joke that if you want premium oats, you have to pay a premium price. On the other hand, if you are satisfied with oats that have already been through the horse, they are cheaper. Hungary is still paying a premium prices, but Fidesz has been feeding Hungarians used oats for years……especially since ruling by emergency decree which will be 5 years next month. If you think that ruling by decree will end before Fidesz control does, belly up to the trough. There lots more used oats on the menu.
Intelligence reports indicate that Russia has plans to bring 150,000 troops into Belarus this year “for training”. This is the exact same thing they did before they invaded Ukraine from Belarus in 2022. The risk now is that Putin may view NATO as weak and divided and without meaningful support from the Trump Administration. Putin thus will view this as a historic opportunity to actually attack NATO states as soon as this summer or sometime next year. The primary threat is to Poland and Lithuania with strategically a Russian drive in the Suwalki Gap to link up with Kaliningrad and sever the link between the Baltics and Poland. The Baltics would then be methodically attack by Russia. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has stated that Russia will be defeated if such an attack was launched but this is a critical moment when every country must strengthen its’ defences. Traitor Hungary is of course excluded from this.