We stand by President Trump, we push him, because under his leadership the political relations between the United States and Hungary were the best, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade in an interview with the American TV channel Newsmax.
In a video uploaded to his Facebook page on Wednesday, Péter Szijjártó said about the new indictment against former US President Donald Trump that he was already used to it, since
when a conservative leader has a chance to win an important position, that leader is immediately under massive attack from the liberal mainstream.
He added that
the situation is very similar in Europe: if there is a conservative leader who is strong, has a good reputation, enjoys the support of society, then the liberal mainstream launches an attack against him and does not hesitate to use all kinds of tools, and the judiciary is usually the one such tool.
Regarding Sweden's NATO accession, Péter Szijjártó said that the government supports the ratification process, which is the reason why the government submitted the draft law to the parliament.
"It depends on our representatives, who have a two-thirds majority in the parliament, when they want to put this issue on the agenda," he added. Said,
in the past ten years, Swedish politicians have made constant accusations and slanders "against us", saying that "Hungary is not a democracy, we are a dictatorship" , whatever we did was not legitimate.
He said: "Very similar to the criticism of President Trump (...) our representatives took this as an insult, they fight for people's votes in the election campaigns to improve the living standards of their constituents, and then suddenly they are told from another country, they do not operate democratically, but dictatorially."
He announced, therefore - since this was taken as an insult -
they are not yet ready to make that decision, when they are ready they will make the decision.
The government is favorable and supportive of the issue, he said.
In the program, the reporter pointed out that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently went so far as to call Hungary an unfriendly nation: "Did this surprise you, considering that your president is historically a supporter of the Kremlin?"
Péter Szijjártó responded that they were not surprised, because Hungary is a member of both NATO and the European Union, and all member states of both integrations are considered by the Russians to be unfriendly countries. "It's not only the Ukrainians who are suffering, but also the Hungarians," he added.
"Unfortunately, I speak for a nation whose members are losing their lives in this war."
He said that Ukraine has a significant Hungarian community, about 150,000. And since they are Ukrainian citizens, they are drafted into the Ukrainian army, sent to the front, and unfortunately die there. Many Hungarians have already died in this war. "And we don't want additional victims, so this is one of the reasons why we argue for peace as soon as possible," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
He added: Hungary is very seriously facing the negative effects of the war,
"We see the suffering of the people of Ukraine, including the Hungarians living there, so we want this suffering to end. And the only way to end this suffering is to end the war. So a ceasefire, peace talks, sustainable peace, we support that"
he emphasized.
To the suggestion that, according to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the Ukrainians cannot win the war, only negotiation can be "viable", Péter Szijjártó replied:
he is quite sure that this war has no solution on the battlefield.
"There are only dead people on the battlefield. And the longer this war goes on, the more people will die. Every single day of the war brings new victims, people die, people suffer. No one knows the exact number of victims, but the number is many, far too many. So the only solution to this war is a negotiated solution. The solution will be born at the negotiating table. I am very sorry that this is getting further and further away as this war escalates more and more geographically. (...) the escalation of the war outside of Ukraine poses a great danger to us, because we are a neighboring country. So once a war escalates, it doesn't escalate thousands of kilometers away, but in the neighborhood of the war," he said.
Hungary has already accepted more than one million refugees, and as a nation that has already "lost too many lives in this war, we ask the international community to finally start focusing on peace," he pointed out.
He said:
"I see that if President Trump had won the last presidential election here in the United States, this war would not have broken out because there was no Russian attack on anyone during President Trump's tenure."
He added: "We see Trump's possible return to the White House as a hope for a peaceful future."
MTI
