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PM Orbán Urges De-Escalation, Peaceful Resolution to Ukraine-Russia Standoff

MTI-Hungary Today 2022.01.31.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Saturday urged de-escalation and a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine-Russia standoff.

After a meeting of right-wing party leaders in Madrid, Orbán told journalists that he had appealed to everyone attending the meeting to take a stand for a peaceful resolution and de-escalation.

Orbán said Europe’s new security architecture was an important issue and “Europeans must be involved in some way”.

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Meanwhile, the prime minister insisted that European climate policy was a failure, adding that raising energy prices to protect the climate was “unreasonable”. Hungary, he said, was intent on preventing Brussels from imposing new taxes on car and homeowners.

Featured photo via Viktor Orbán’s Facebook page


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