Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, in remarks to reporters following the conclusion of the NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday, took aim at European efforts to obstruct the possibility of peace breaking out in Ukraine. He charged, among other things, that the EU is dictating so-called “red lines” to Ukraine in the peace process with Russia, preventing an agreement from being worked out. “The ‘red lines’ for Ukraine are set not by the Ukrainians themselves, but by the Europeans, who dictate their terms to them and do not allow them to reach a [peace] agreement,” he said, reported TASS. Szijjarto said he believes that EU leaders “hinder an agreement on peace from being reached, pushing Ukrainians to lose more people, all with the objective of starting a war against the Russians.”
“In my opinion, this is totally unacceptable,” he stressed. “We don’t want Europe to be at war with Russia. We do not want the future Europe to be involved in war,” he continued.
Szijjarto emphasized that “NATO’s European member states have fallen prey to obvious military fanaticism, which blinds them and makes them unable to make reasonable decisions.”
