Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said on Monday that international diplomacy has gained new impetus since the Hungarian "peace mission".
“Finally more and more people are speaking to each other, and this is good news because the way to peace is through negotiations,” Minister Szijjártó said on Facebook. He said China’s foreign minister and the US secretary of state had held talks at a recent ASEAN forum, and the Russian foreign minister had also spoken with his South Korean counterpart. “It would be good if the Europeans also noticed this, but it appears that understanding is slower here…” the minister said. Meanwhile, Szijjártó said Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski was “also sticking to provocation”, adding that he was “used to this”, as they sit next to each other in EU Foreign Affairs Council meetings. He added, however, that Sikorski had “crossed another line by lying” when he had said that the Hungarian foreign minister had backed his “nonsensical proposal” for the next informal meeting of EU foreign ministers to be held in Ukraine. Szijjártó said that he had immediately objected to the proposal at the meeting, adding that there would not be a Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Ukraine.