PM Orbán about Middle East conflict: What we feared has happened

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in a Facebook post about the Middle East conflict on Sunday, vowed that his government “will do everything to ensure that the wars going on in the world don’t threaten the peace and safety of Hungarian families.”

In a video message after a meeting of the Defence Council, the prime minister condemned Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel.

The attack, he said, threatened an interstate war in the Middle East, which posed a grave danger to the entire world, including Hungary.

Orbán said he had called a meeting of the Defence Council on Sunday to assess the conflict’s national security and economic effects on Hungary.

“I have instructed the interior minister and senior counter-terrorism officers to guarantee the safety of the Hungarian people using every means at their disposal,” he said.

“On Tuesday, I will travel to Brussels to assess the current war situation with European leaders,” Orbán said. “We must do everything to ensure that the wars going on in the world don’t threaten the peace and safety of Hungarian families.”

The video message in Hungarian: 

The Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus on Monday, which was a response to the current Iranian attack and left several people dead, was not commented on or condemned by the Hungarian government.

After Iran attacked Israel, many local Hungarians contacted the embassy, details HERE.

As we wrote in February, Hungary and Iran both are interested in developing economic cooperation in sectors not subject to sanctions, such as the pharmaceutical industry, the health and food industries and water management, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Tehran, details HERE.