Minister Szijjártó warned that the failure of the world's biggest powers to speak to each other presented an "extraordinary risk" in terms of global security.
At the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó addressed a series of pressing international issues, emphasizing Hungary's commitment to global peace, security, and cooperation.
As a neighbor of Ukraine, Hungary "has been living in the shadow of war" and facing its consequences by accepting 1.3 million refugees from the country, Minister Szijjártó said.
The foreign minister said sea-level rise was not a purely ecological issue, arguing that it could also pose a threat to political stability.
The General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted a Hungarian initiative with a full consensus to mark World Fair Play Day on May 19 each year.
Terrorist organizations abused illegal migration while hiding their terrorists in the uncontrolled waves of migrants.
Minister Szijjártó said the UN had handled counter-terrorism action as a “stepchild” for a long time.
Minister Szijjártó said global security was in its worst shape since the end of the Cold War, arguing that more than 30 serious armed conflicts were going on in the world, and the threat of terrorism was at an all-time high.
The foreign minister said Hungary’s government sees the cooperation between East and West as a great opportunity rather than danger.
The foreign minister said the countries in the region could return to the hopeful path towards peace carved by the Abraham Accords.
The foreign minister said terrorism creates a vicious circle with illegal migration, given the fact that terrorism is one of the major root causes for migration and one of the consequences as well.
Minister Szijjártó noted that the world had recently undergone two major shocks in the form of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
The foreign minister said that Hungary could not support Ukraine’s Transatlantic and European integration as long as ethnic Hungarian schools were “at risk” in the country.