“The war in Ukraine is becoming more and more brutal and more and more people are dying in the fighting. It is necessary to save people’s lives, and this is only possible in peace,” said the head of Hungarian diplomacy on the social network.
“Obviously, many will criticize me for this visit,” Szijjártó wrote about his trip to Belarus. “Our position is clear: communication channels need to be kept open. If it were not so, I would not be able to present the call for peace today,” added the minister, who is one of the few representatives of the governments of EU member states to visit Russia.
According to the minister, Hungary expects that other countries will act in the interest of peace and avoid steps that prolong and escalate the war.
Orbán published a photo with Zelensky. At the same time, he avoided him in Brussels
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In the West, Russia supports the line of opinion that the supply of weapons intended for the defense of the attacked Ukraine escalates the war and without them it would be possible to negotiate peace through diplomatic channels. Ukraine insists that Russia must completely withdraw its invading army from its territory beyond the internationally recognized border.
He goes to Russia, meets with Lavrov
Szijjártó held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov last July in Moscow and in September in New York, in October he took part in a panel discussion in Moscow entitled Global trends in energy: today and tomorrow, and in November he participated in the Atomexpo nuclear energy forum in Russia the city of Sochi.
Hungary receives Russian gas on the basis of a long-term contract.
The entry of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Alliance has not yet been approved by Turkey and Hungary. The Hungarian Parliament should do so at its March meeting.
The men made anti-Russian speeches. They got 14 and 16 years in Belarus for planning sabotage
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