Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said that if pro-war forces are allowed to keep their positions, then it must be expected that the war situation is here to stay for many years.
Ahead of the ruling parties' election meeting in Vác, near Budapest, on Friday, Minister Szijjártó said Europe is in a situation that is new to most Europeans, which is that there is a war on the continent. This war is happening in Hungary’s neighbourhood and poses serious dangers for all of Europe, including Hungary, he said. The closer a country is to the war, the greater risk it faces of the war spreading further, he added. Minister Szijjártó warned that European political leaders were “suffering from war psychosis”, and that their “irresponsible remarks and decisions carry the risk of the war spreading further”. “We’ve even heard some completely mad positions, not only about sending European troops to Ukraine but also about installing nuclear weapons,” he said. Minister Szijjártó said that if just one more European country got involved in the war, it would trigger a threat of a world war, arguing that this other country would certainly be a NATO member, and a NATO country getting into a direct conflict with Russia “would obviously result in the outbreak of another world war”. He said that on June 9, European citizens would get to decide whether they wanted war or peace.