Leading officials of Hungary are continuing their daily calls for an end to arms deliveries to Kiev and sanctions against Russia, urging a ceasefire in Ukraine and talks to end the conflict.
The conflict could only be ended through a ceasefire, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview for Sweden’s SVT TV channel. “The first goal is to stop killing people, which means a ceasefire agreement and nothing more.”
According to Szijjarto, EU sanctions have failed to stop the conflict. “We have already introduced 10 sanctions packages; has it brought us any closer to a resolution? No. Has it brought Russia to its knees? No. Has it hurt us? Yes. I think that the ‘solutions’ that we have been trying to find in Europe simply didn’t work, because we’ve got too carried away with the war mentality,” he observed.
When asked why Hungary will not ship weapons to Kiev, the Foreign Minister said: “We are a state that neighbors Ukraine, and we do not want more people to die. This is why we are working to stop it. We do not ship weapons, we continue to advocate peace.”
Harsh remarks against the war drive also came already on March 3 from Laszlo Kover, the speaker of Hungary’s National Assembly, who told Hir TV that massive deliveries of military aid to Ukraine have made multiple NATO and EU nations party to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Kover said: “Members of NATO and the EU have already sent almost $60 billion worth of lethal military equipment to Ukraine, one of the warring parties. This means that individual countries—members of the European Union and NATO—are participants of this war, although not yet fighting,” he said.
