Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Hungary’s government will continue its peace mission “despite the attacks of pro-war European politicians”.
At the end of the first week of the Hungarian presidency of the European Union, the foreign minister said on Facebook on Sunday: “It must have become apparent to everyone that the next six months will be a peace mission." Hungary will do everything in its power to contribute to the end of the war and to broker peace, “after two and a half years of suffocating war crisis.” The past week had also shown why the crisis was deepening in Europe, Szijjártó said. “Europe is full of pro-war politicians who have all surfaced this week, criticising the Hungarian government and prime minister for working for peace.” Those politicians “have deepened the crisis with weapon deliveries, with [voicing] phantasies on sending land troops and about nuclear weapons,” he said. “These attacks do not intimidate or discourage us, the peace mission will continue and even strengthen, and so I would like to ask pro-war politicians to buckle their seatbelts and pay attention next week too,” Szijjártó said.