Hungary’s foreign minister has called the refusal to invite Ukraine to NATO the right decision of the summit. According to Szijjártó, the results of the NATO summit in Vilnius for Kiev can be considered modest.
The refusal to invite Ukraine to NATO is the only correct decision of the alliance’s summit in Vilnius. This was stated by the head of the Hungarian foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
“I think that NATO made a responsible decision, avoided the danger of escalation, because it made it clear that Ukraine, maybe one day, one day can become a member of NATO, if everyone agrees and all the conditions are fulfilled. There is no invitation for Ukraine, there is no timetable for Ukraine, and I think in this situation it was the only responsible decision that NATO could make,” Szijjártó told Hungarian journalists before the start of the second day of the NATO summit in Vilnius. It was broadcast on the social network Facebook*.
He noted that it is now “quite clear to all member countries of the alliance that a belligerent country cannot be admitted to NATO, because when NATO expands, it does so with the expectation that the new member adds to, not takes away from, the security of the alliance and strengthens, not destroys, the security of the member countries.”
“Admitting a belligerent country to NATO would obviously carry with it the danger that, according to the rules, the whole of NATO would be drawn into a war, and this must of course be avoided,” Sijjarto added.
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