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There is continuous contact and communication between the US administration and the Hungarian government, from the technical level to the various political levels and the highest leadership level, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Monday. Answering journalists’ questions at a press conference, he emphasized that the most important topic of the talks is now the establishment of peace in Ukraine.
“We talk to each other regularly and coordinate our positions on important issues,” he stated. “The Prime Minister has also spoken with the US President, and there will be further high-level contacts between the President’s administration and the Hungarian government this week,” he added.
The Foreign Minister also said that
the most important topic of the talks now was peace-building, because “it is clear that many European leaders are trying to block Donald Trump’s peace ambitions.”
“We, who have been living here for three years in the shadow of war and in the neighborhood of war, absolutely support Donald Trump’s peace efforts. We know full well that a US-Russian agreement is the only way to peace in the region, and we will engage in the European discussions in the coming period accordingly,” he underlined.
Speaking about this week’s special EU summit, Péter Szijjártó pointed out that there is a strategic difference between pro-peace and pro-war actors on the Ukraine war, and that this cannot be bridged “by any communication tricks or wording”. This is why Viktor Orbán suggested that there should not even be a proposal for a final declaration on Ukraine, because there will be no agreement.
The U.S. and Hungary maintain continuous communication at all levels, from technical discussions to leadership talks, FM Péter Szijjártó confirmed. He noted that @PM_ViktorOrban has spoken with the @POTUS, and further high-level contacts are expected this week.
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“We want the war to end, the others or a significant part of the others want to prolong the war. They want the war to continue. There is no common denominator between the two. So if you want to have a debate about this, it can only end up in a picture of division, which the European Union can convey. And we think it would be better to avoid that,” he said.
The Minister also pointed out that the European Commission recently gave a guarantee on four points that Hungary’s energy supply to Ukraine would be secure, and two of these have already been violated. He recalled that the day before he had written to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to ask whether these guarantees were still considered valid. “For my part, I would wait for the answer and then we will of course take a decision,” he stated.
Via MTI, Featured photo via MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Fischer Zoltán