The liberal political and media world of the transatlantic world should not be believed, because it is clear that the global majority, like Hungary, wants peace in Ukraine as soon as possible, stated Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó in Budapest on Tuesday.
According to the ministry's announcement, the head of the ministry said at the international conference of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) Budapest Peace Forum that Europe is now facing the most serious security and economic challenges since the end of the Second World War, and the danger of escalation is higher than ever, while the continent's inhabitants are not at all responsible for the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
"The other issue is that there are European political leaders who suffer from worsening war psychosis. (…) We must also make it clear that this is not a war of the European people, but all European people are paying the price of this war"
he said.
He called it a serious problem that the European Union plunged itself into "sanctions hysteria" and, in a completely illogical way, allowed the world's number one military superpower, the United States, to provoke it into a competition about who would deliver more weapons to Ukraine.
He pointed out that the competitiveness of the EU has "fallen sharply", the price of energy is several times what is paid in the United States and China. In this regard, he pointed out that the American inflation-reducing law favors domestic companies, while the Brussels bureaucracy forces decisions that are bad for all European companies.
"In addition, the war is taking place here, European people are dying, and the effects of the war are most severe in Europe"
- He told.
He underlined that the imposed sanctions did not end the fighting and did not bring Russia to its knees, and the European economy suffered more damage.
"One year, three months, two weeks after the outbreak of the war, during the discussion of the eleventh package of sanctions, I think it is clear to everyone that of the two objectives associated with the introduction of the sanctions, both have failed"
he declared.
Péter Szijjártó warned that the escalation always affects the neighbors most seriously, which is why Hungary is in a particularly difficult situation, if only because Hungarian people also die in the war.
"And we don't want more Hungarians to die, just as we don't want people of any other nationality to die in this war"
- He told.
"That is why we demand an immediate ceasefire, we demand that peace negotiations begin, which at least offer the hope that a sustainable, long-term security-giving peace will be established in our region," he added.
He also described the repeated blockade of the world as a serious consequence, which is completely contrary to the interests of Central Europe, and also raised the question of where the tens of thousands of weapons delivered to Ukraine will end up in the coming years. Regarding the former, he explained that while Western European politicians want to separate the European and Chinese economies, the leaders of the largest companies are constantly asking our country to convince their Chinese suppliers of local investments. Speaking about the latter, he emphasized: "there are many regions of the world where even a very small fraction of the weapons sent to Ukraine could lead to serious disasters, security crises and instability."
According to the minister, the world is bigger than Europe and the global majority wants peace.
"So we shouldn't believe the mainstream liberal political and media world of the transatlantic world, because they are trying to force us to believe that they think everywhere in the world like what we say, hear or say and want to hear here in Europe and the transatlantic region"
he said.
"Because we live here in Europe, we live here in the transatlantic region, so we are constantly faced with the great pressure, the great attack launched against us by the war supporters and under which the war supporters keep us," he said.
"But there is movement under the surface, there isn't a foreign affairs council meeting before which at least a few colleagues don't come to me and ask, aren't you, Péter, who are you going to hold me, are you going to be tough, aren't you going to let me go?"
- He told.
"Then when I present myself at the Foreign Affairs Council, I immediately receive a text message with the emoji that it's great. I will listen to the colleague and I can't believe my ears. He reads it from A to Z, top left to bottom right, written by someone in the mainstream. So we are in such a situation, but this does not have to discourage us from the point of view that we look at all of this exclusively from a Hungarian point of view," he added.
"We neither want nor can look at this situation through American glasses, Russian glasses, Ukrainian glasses, or Brussels glasses"
he stated.
He emphasized that the pro-peace in Hungary is not only the position of the government, but the will of the people, which was well demonstrated by the results of last year's election.
MTI
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