Press statement by Viktor Orbán following a meeting of the Visegrád Four
24 November 2022, Košice/Kassa
24 November 2022, Košice/Kassa
The prime minister said Hungary was committed to providing the necessary support for their accession to the alliance.
According to PM Orbán, Hungary supports the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden and will put it on the Hungarian Parliament’s agenda in its first session next year.
Every effort must be made to prevent the escalation of the war and the involvement of the V4, the European Union and NATO in it.
“The shared cultural heritage of the four countries shapes us into a strong community,” Tibor Navracsics, the minister responsible for regional development said.
Ukraine’s chief of staff was invited but the war situation prevented him from travelling to Debrecen for the meeting. Poland’s chief of staff was also not in attendance.
“We condemn Russia’s military attack and the war but we will not allow Hungarian families to be made to pay the price of war," the prime minister said.
The meeting was held as part of a V4-Britain summit convened by the UK premier concerning the war in Ukraine.
Parliamentary foreign affairs committee leaders of the four Visegrad countries held a two-day meeting with their French partners in Budapest and discussed security policy challenges in the east and the south.
V4 energy ministers discussed the planning and establishment of a European hydrogen ecosystem at a meeting in Budapest on Tuesday.
The defense and law enforcement committees of the parliaments of the Visegrad Group have expressed support for an undivided NATO and European Union.
Minister Szijjártó called on the EU to transfer the entire sum of 6 billion euros which had been promised to Ankara.
The Visegrad Group countries at the European Council summit in Brussels will be fighting to secure lower energy prices for families.