War in Ukraine: Hungarian Foreign Minister calls for peace talks
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Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, has called on the warring sides to start talks on putting an end to the war in Ukraine.
“As we are no longer in the eleventh but in the twelfth hour, the war in Ukraine should be ended as soon as possible. For this reason, the sides involved should use the week of the UN General Assembly session for launching genuine negotiations,” the minister told MTI in New York.
Commenting on Russia’s partial mobilisation, Szijjártó said all steps escalating the conflict are bad news and all steps that bring peace closer are good ones. As Ukraine’s neighbour, Hungary faces the negative effects of war directly, and has therefore a vested interest in the earliest possible resolution of the conflict so as to prevent greater trouble, he said.
“We would like to call the attention of all for the need to put an end to the war. We should use the opportunity of this week’s UN General Assembly, the United Nations, which was set up as a forum for discussing even the toughest global issues,” he said.
“We, in Ukraine’s neighbourhood, cannot say anything else but that we want peace and call on the major world policy players to finally negotiate with each other, reach a ceasefire agreement, and finally start talks that can bring peace and put an end to the totally senseless suffering of tens or hundreds of thousands, and even millions of people,” Szijjártó said.
So if refugees (migrants) turn up at our border and claim asylum based on their minority rights are being breached and they’re being persecuted or fear persecution, have a robust case in Hungary? Or is it just for people who identify as Hungarian or of Hungarian heritage that are covered? Puts our whole border scheme in a different light.