The foreign minister said Brussels cannot accept that Hungarians have made their own decision on their future and that Hungary is governed by a successful right-wing Christian Democratic government.
The foreign minister said it is “outrageous” that while Hungary is participating in the program under which the EU supports Ukraine, the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency has placed the OTP Group...
Minister Szijjártó responded to recent remarks by Volodymyr Zelensky stating that “Hungary’s behavior as a NATO member is inappropriate”.
“We feel what it means when our sons and husbands are sent to war. I’m working for generations not to have to experience the horrors of war,” the president said.
Minister Szijjártó told UNHRC that a Ukrainian proposal had floated the idea of ethnic minority families receiving ca. 1,000 euros if their children are enrolled in Ukrainian-language schools rather than those offering education in their mother tongue.
The foreign ministry said Hungary will not let itself be dragged into the war in Ukraine.
Minister Nagy said Hungary will offer any assistance it can to see Ukrainian grain reach its “original destination”: consumers in Africa and the Middle East.
“It seems that despite the start of a new year, the warlike attitude isn’t changing and the same warlike atmosphere persists,” Péter Szijjártó told a press conference.
The prime minister said: “Hungary’s government is supporting Ukraine and has a vested interest in its sovereignty and we have an interest in Russia not posing a threat to Europe’s security, we have no interest in severing all economic ties with Russia."
The president said she hoped Hungarian families would be able to “concentrate on their love for each other at least in these few days”, amid the economic fallout of the war that came hard on the heels of the two-year coronavirus pandemic.
Katalin Novák said that being the president of a neighborly country with Ukraine, peace and stability were crucially important for her.
The foreign minister said the decision on keeping the embassy open is being reviewed on a daily basis.
HEA said Hungarian and Ukrainian electricity regulatory authorities on Tuesday held talks on legal requirements to prepare cross-border trade.