Orbán: Development of Balkans in Hungary’s interest
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met Milorad Dodik, the president of the Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina, for talks in his office on Wednesday, the prime minister’s press chief said.
Orbán supports development of Balkans
The sides were in agreement that existing political tensions in the Balkans should not be overlooked even in the shadow of the Russia-Ukraine war, Bertalan Havasi said.
Orbán said that Hungary had a vested interest in the peaceful development of the region and the sides therefore agreed to further strengthen political and economic cooperation between Hungary and Republika Srpska.
Szijjártó calls for end to ‘stoking unnecessary tensions’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on Wednesday called for an end to “stoking unnecessary tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, saying that actions of the international community, including the European Union, often led to the threat of new crises.
Speaking after talks with Milorad Dodik, the president of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Serbian Republic, Szijjártó told a joint press conference that peace and stability at the Western Balkans were key to those of the continent. Hungary will do everything in its power to promote it during its EU presidency starting in July, he added.
Speeding up EU enlargement is one of the best ways to allay tensions, Szijjártó said. “Unfortunately, European decisions often end up ruining basically immediately the hard-won fragile results in the region.”
Bosnia and Herzegovina started accession negotiations in March, and was progressing well amid “a consensus of every entity on becoming an EU member as soon as possible”, Szijjártó said.
“That harmony was ruined by the High Representative’s decision to interfere in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s internal affairs by changing the election law unilaterally, aggressively, and under his own authority,” Szijjártó said, referring to the Office of the High Representative tasked with implementing the civilian aspects of the peace agreement ending the war in the Balkans.
Fidesz is promoting the interests of genocidal Serbian Nazis. Serbia and Bosniak Serbs have never taken responsibility for what they did and Szijjarto wants sweep the genocide of tens of thousands of Bosnians under the rug and the reason why is because the Serbs are allied with their Nazi Russian brothers. This is what Fidesz want to bring to the EU. There is no way they will in the foreseeable future ever join.