During his speech at the OSCE ministerial meeting in Skopje, the head of the Hungarian MFA, Peter Szijarto, assured that the supply of weapons to Ukraine would not lead to peace and that he wanted to preserve the lives of the Hungarian minority.
The Hungarian minister in the OSCE called for an end to aid to Ukraine with weapons "so that Hungarians don't die"
We did not think even in our wildest dreams that there would be a war in Europe. And it happened, and we are neighbors of this war, said Siyarto, who did not join the boycott of the ministerial meeting due to the participation of the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
He complained that the war had led to an increase in energy prices. "We are paying the price of this war in the form of inflation, which has increased 10-15 times. We feel this war, even though it is not our war," said the Hungarian minister.
He repeated Budapest's official position: that the supply of weapons to Kyiv "does not help to achieve peace, but only leads to new victims."
Those who say there is a battlefield solution are wrong. And those who say that development on the battlefield will increase the chances of peace are wrong. It's getting worse every day, Szijarto said, mentioning in this context that members of the Hungarian minority are dying on the battlefield.
"We don't want more Hungarians to die, but in general, we don't want more people to die," he added.
Siyarto expressed regret that there are no direct contacts between Ukraine and Russia, in particular, within the framework of the OSCE.
It is a pity to see that direct communication between Ukraine and Russia did not take place at this forum either, he said.
Sijarto expressed his conviction that the world should not be divided into blocs, but global cooperation should exist.
We will remind you that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was invited to this year's meeting of foreign ministers of the OSCE member states. Because of this, the ministers of foreign affairs of Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states publicly announced a boycott of the meeting.
