Orbán: “Hungary prioritizes friendship with Israel on the arrest warrant of TPI against Netyahu”
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, justified this Friday not to stop at the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, during his visit to Budapest, ensuring that Hungary is not obliged to comply with the arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court (TPI) and prioritizes his friendship with Israel.
“We do not usually arrest our guests. We did not want to do it, because we make friends and it is good that Israel is a friend of Hungary. We have not implemented in our Criminal Code the decisions of the TPI,” Orban listed the three reasons why Hungary has not arrested the Israeli prime minister, despite being one of the 125 states in which the court decisions should be applied.
The prime minister stressed, in his Friday statements to the Kossuth public radio, the importance of maintaining good relations, which he described as “friendlies”, with Israel, whose stability is a common interest, he said.
Orbán and Netanyahu, on whom a TPI arrest warrant weighs for the Israeli offensive in Gaza, made a brief statement to the press on their conversations and the Israeli prime minister said that the two countries fight for the survival of Judeo -Christian civilization. “I think we are fighting a similar battle for the future of our common civilization, our Judeo -Christian civilization, western civilization as we understand it, which is right now under attack by a powerful actor: radical Islamism,” Netyahu said.
Just before the meeting between the two leaders, the Hungarian government. “The accusation against Israeli prime minister is the saddest example that it has become a political body,” said the Minister of the Interior, Gergely Gulyás to the MTI news agency. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjartó reported last night that his department has presented to Parliament a bill to manage the withdrawal of Hungary from the TPI.
Netanyahu will remain in Budapest until Sunday, when he will return to Israel. (EFE)
