Minister Szijjártó said he did not expect “a friendly atmosphere”, and he warned of “a very dangerous situation”.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó handed over a Teqball table to NATO on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in Brussels on Thursday.
The foreign minister said the government’s main goal was to protect Hungary from the war in Ukraine.
NATO is made up of national forces, and that is why every member state has to develop its own forces; being committed to its NATO membership, Hungary is doing so indeed – stated Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky after the Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels on 15 February.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said NATO member states should rethink their “failed” Ukraine strategy, but most of them show no willingness to do so despite the lack of success seen over the past year and a half.
Security is of key importance to Hungary and the Hungarian people, and the country’s membership in NATO guarantees its security as well as that of the wider region, stated President of Hungary Katalin Novák, Commander-in-Chief of the Hungarian Defence Forces at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels on 8 November.
Hungary takes her share of the collective tasks in accordance with its commitments, told the Ministry of Defence to Hungarian news agency MTI after the Meetings of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels.
Facebook statement by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at a summit of heads of state and heads of government of the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: “This is Vilnius, and a two-day NATO summit. The most important issue could only be the Russo-Ukrainian war. The Hungarian position remains unchanged, and we shall continue to defend it: we should not take weapons to Ukraine, but peace.
Strong national armed forces and a strong NATO are the guarantees of Hungary’s security, said Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky in a statement given to Hungarian news agency MTI after the meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels on Friday, 16 June.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said in Oslo on Thursday that the NATO membership of a country at war cannot be on the agenda at the defense alliance’s next summit in Vilnius, adding that NATO must not become party to the war in Ukraine, lest it risks a third world war.