Szijjártó: European interests served by dialogue instead of world divided into blocs
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The world is again becoming divided into blocs, partly as a consequence of the war in Ukraine, and this harms European and Hungarian interests, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Geneva on Wednesday.
Dialogue and connectivity are needed instead, he told a forum of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) dealing with sustainable development.
Central Europe has always lost out whenever there was a conflict between East and West, he said. Instead of antagonistic blocs, what is needed is cooperation based on mutual respect and benefits, he added.
Szijjártó slammed moves to break East-West economic ties, arguing that severing cooperation between Europe and China would “knock out” the European economy.
Noting the car industry, undergoing a “revolutionary transformation”, he insisted that large Western companies involved in electromobility were highly dependent on Eastern partners.
Europe, he said, faced grave challenges to its economy and security, and the cost of the war in Ukraine was evident in skyrocketing food and energy prices and a big dent to European competitiveness.
The man is an idiot. The world has always been divided into blocks and will continue to be whilst there are dictatorships base on extreme ideology. Dialogue is required to overcome and circumvent severe differences between the blocks. Or is he suggesting that we all adopt the Russian or Chinese model???