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Global security is at a post-Cold-War nadir and the world is enmeshed in danger, lurching from crisis to crisis, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, told a session of parliament on Wednesday.

Hungary is preparing to send a mission of 200 soldiers to Chad next spring under a draft resolution before parliament, the defence minister said in the debate on the proposal on Wednesday.

"Any explanation for or relativising" the terrorist attack against Israel "is unacceptable", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in New York late on Tuesday.

The Turkish president's recent submission of a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership bid to parliament does not change the state of Hungary's ratification of the country's accession, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in New York on Tuesday.

The potential escalation of the conflict in Israel from an anti-terror operation to another interstate armed conflict "would take us extremely close to a third world war", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in New York on Tuesday.

Opposition Parbeszed is calling for parliament to put the ratification of Sweden's NATO accession on its agenda, the party's group leader said on Tuesday.

The international community must do everything it can to prevent the conflict in the Middle East from escalating into an interstate war, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Luxembourg.

The approach to the situation in Ukraine remains a "pro-war" stance in Brussels, with the European Commission's 20 billion euro package containing "everything about war, but nothing about how to achieve peace", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Luxembourg on Monday.

Though European liberal politicians "have long denied the major threat illegal migration poses to Europe", it has now become clear to everyone that Brussels had underestimated its dangers, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook on Thursday.

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has hit back at Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas's recent expression of shock over Tuesday's meeting between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling her reaction "hypocrisy at its peak".