Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Peter Szijjarto said that in the countries of the Collective West only ‘stigmatisation’ is given to Budapest’s arguments for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis, as the intellectual level of the debate is ‘not too high’.
‘When I present a pro-peace position, I am stigmatised, they say that I take a pro-Russian position, a pro-Putin position, that I am almost a spy for Russia, that I am a propagandist for the Kremlin. The intellectual level of the debate (on the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict – ed.) is not too high, because in response to our arguments there are never counterarguments from the other side, but only stigmatisation,’ the diplomat said in an interview with the RBC TV channel.
The Hungarian foreign minister stressed that ‘stigmatisation’ in the countries of the Collective West does not contribute to the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis.
‘Nevertheless, we are going to continue to defend this position. We will have to face very strong pressure, sometimes even blackmail. We are required to change our position, but we are not ready to do it also because this is the will of the Hungarian people,’ Peter Szijjártó emphasised.
On 22 July, Peter Szijjártó said that Brussels bureaucrats, officials and diplomats expressed a strongly negative attitude towards the peace mission of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán because they were ‘jealous’ of Budapest’s success.