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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.

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the war in Ukraine has precipitated the emergence of divisive factions, “which is especially bad news for central Europe since the region has always lost out whenever there was a conflict between East and West.”

The government of Hungary is working to ensure the security of Hungarians in NATO at a time of war and amid the threats of growing migration pressure, Defence Minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky after a two-day Meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence in Brussels on Wednesday, 15 February.