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Szijjarto: Question is ‘not what we think about war’ but how to establish peace

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Hungary will support any pro-peace initiative that can put an end to almost a thousand days of suffering in Ukraine, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said at a UN Security Council meeting in New York focused on Ukraine, insisting that the question was not "what we think about the war, but how to establish peace" in the quickest possible timeframe.
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25. September 2024 14:54

At the meeting on Tuesday evening local time, Szijjarto said that Hungary had direct experiences of the negative consequences of the conflict in its neighbourhood and had paid a high price for the war over the past two and a half years, even though it bore no responsibility for its outbreak.

“We Hungarians … do not want further destruction [or] suffering, and we do not want more people to die”, especially given “the significant Hungarian community living in Ukraine”. Arms shipments, he added, would not bring the end of the war any closer, while more and more weapons on both sides only led to more casualties and the growing risk of escalation under the shadow of nuclear weapons.

“We Hungarians argue for a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations. We Hungarians believe that this is the fastest way to peace,” he said.

“What has happened so far proves that there is no solution on the battlefield…” he added.

Szijjarto said that hopefully the UN General Assembly would “bring us closer to the end of the war, to peace, and to the end of the suffering of the people in our neighbourhood.”

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