Minister Szalay-Bobrovniczky said the EU was “putting an enormous pressure on Hungary … to grant its approval to spending additional hundreds of millions of euros on weapons (to Ukraine)”.
The president said Russia wanted a long war, though any sign of a willingness on its part to explore a peace settlement must be grasped.
Minister Szijjártó said Qatar and Hungary had both been on the receiving end of “ruthless and unfounded attacks by the liberal mainstream” recently.
“There is only death on the battlefield, but no solution,” Tamás Menczer, the state secretary for bilateral relations, said.
The foreign minister said Hungary started building ties with Central Asia before other players and now enjoys a competitive advantage in a region of growing importance.
Minister Szijjártó said that in all cases of armed conflicts in far-away locations, European Union members supported peaceful solutions and dialogue, but have gone a different way in the case of Ukraine.
“The Hungarian position which we will be representing is unchanged: it is peace, rather than weapons, that should be delivered to Ukraine,” PM Orbán said.
Minister Szijjártó said those who favored a solution to the war on the battlefield over a diplomatic settlement bore responsibility for the growing casualties and natural disasters.
Nézőpont’s phone survey was conducted with a representative sample of 1,000 adults between June 12 and 14.
The foreign minister said the international community’s primary task should be to save lives.
The foreign minister said the continent would lose out if it kept following other global political players instead of enforcing its own interests.
The foreign minister said Europe is facing its most serious security and economic challenges since the second world war.
The foreign minister said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had been attacked by Ukrainian politicians after he once again stood up for achieving peace as soon as possible.