Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó met with the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, in Moscow on Monday. Referring to the post of the Hungarian minister on Facebook, the correspondent of TASR in Budapest informs about it.
“Hungary stands on the side of peace. In the last thousand days, it has been definitively confirmed that the war in Ukraine does not have a solution on the battlefield, so it must be sought at the negotiating table. However, the interruption of diplomatic relations makes negotiations and thus the end of the war impossible. We will maintain dialogue, because that is the only way the peace mission has a chance to succeed,” wrote Szijjártó, who was previously received by First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Denis Manturov.
In this regard, the server telex.hu pointed out that Szijjártó tried to combine this presidency with a “peace mission” at the beginning of his country’s six-month rotating presidency in the Council of the European Union in July. “The first week of Hungary’s EU presidency is coming to an end, during which it was clearly demonstrated that the next six months will be a peace mission“, he declared at the time.
In July, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Ukraine, Russia, China and the United States, describing these foreign trips as a “peace mission”. In response, EU leaders said that the Hungarian prime minister did not speak on behalf of the 27-member bloc during them.
The European Parliament (EP) subsequently approved a resolution condemning Orbán’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. The Hungarian Prime Minister’s steps were described by the members of the European Parliament as a gross violation of treaties and the EU’s common foreign policy.
