President Novák: The time has come to start talking about peace
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.
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.
“There is only death on the battlefield, but no solution,” Tamás Menczer, the state secretary for bilateral relations, said.
Balázs Orbán said that “Europe and the European Union are among the losers of the war” in Ukraine.
Zsolt Németh said the NATO policy agreed on at last week’s summit in Vilnius that Russia was a threat and that Ukraine’s accession to the alliance was conditional on the...
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 foreign minister said the most important objective of the summit for Hungary is reinforcing the statement that NATO is not part of the conflict and will do everything in its power to avoid an escalation.
The prime minister said he had supported peace from the start of the conflict and had maintained the position that “the conflict must not be made a global war but must be isolated.
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.
The defense ministry said in a statement that Hungarian security and defense “are now the first priority”.
Minister Szijjártó said the 11 soldiers, who had been taken prisoners of war by Russia, came to Hungary as a result of the work of the church and the Hungarian Maltese Charity, and without the participation of Hungary’s government.
The foreign minister said the continent would lose out if it kept following other global political players instead of enforcing its own interests.
Hungary is on the side of peace, “and as long as it is up to us, it will stay that way,” Tamás Menczer said.
The foreign minister said Europe is facing its most serious security and economic challenges since the second world war.