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Hungary was a co-author of the draft US peace resolution that was adopted by the UN Security Council yesterday. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó claimed that the new US administration has already done more to achieve piece in Ukraine than the EU did in the last three years.
The document was initiated by the United States and co-authored by Hungary, Israel, Georgia, North Macedonia and Argentina. There was another proposal on the agenda as well, tabled by EU member states and Ukraine. At the UN General Assembly, the US proposal was only adopted by the majority after amendments were added from the EU draft, however, later on, the Security Council adopted the original text from the United States.
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó had said earlier that Hungary would vote in favor of the US proposal.
Quite simply because in the last three years the European Union has failed, it has added fuel to the fire, it has fueled the conflict, while the new pro-peace US president has done in a few weeks what we have been waiting for for three years,”
he emphasized. “Direct US-Russian consultations have begun and the hope for peace is shimmering more brightly than at any time in the last three years,” he added.
️ Hungary is co-sponsoring the U.S. peace resolution at the @UN, supporting it over the EU-Ukraine proposal, as America’s new leadership is making real progress toward ending the war, announced Péter Szijjártó in Brussels.
The U.S.-led resolution—co-sponsored by Hungary,… pic.twitter.com/mJj07uCsgF
— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) February 24, 2025
The Minister then pointed out that the latest package of sanctions against Russia, now the 16th, had just been adopted, and some are already talking about the next one, with the targeting of the energy sector being raised again.
He recalled that while some have called for the opening of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU, he made it clear that this was out of the question. “In fact, in order to accept the so-called open common European position as a prerequisite for opening negotiations, we need to implement the minority action plan that the Ukrainians have promised, which we believe is aimed at restoring all the rights of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia that have been taken away from them, and to put forward a clear plan for doing so”, he said.
He pointed out that a 48-page submission had been received from the Ukrainian side, in which the Crimean Tatars were mentioned 30 times, while the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia was mentioned only twice.
From now on, I think that the Ukrainians’ intention to restore the rights of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia can at least be questioned, so the European integration process looks quite painful, and I would like to make that clear.”
He also underlined that from a Hungarian perspective, the question should not be asked in terms of what security guarantees Ukraine needs, but in terms of what security guarantees Hungarians living in Transcarpathia need.
Via MTI, UN News; Featured photo via Pixabay