Hungary condemns legal attack launched against Israel

Hungary condemns the “legal attack” launched against Israel in the International Court of Justice, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after a phone call with his new Israeli counterpart on Tuesday.

In a Facebook post, Szijjártó noted that he and Foreign Minister Israel Katz had met four years ago when Katz had been in charge of transport.

“Today I congratulated him on the phone on taking office, and we reviewed the situation in the Middle East,” Szijjártó said. “I told my counterpart that Hungary condemns the legal attack launched against Israel in the International Court of Justice in The Hague: accusing a country that has suffered a terrorist attack of committing genocide is obviously nonsense.”

The minister reaffirmed Hungary’s support for Israel’s right to self-defence.

Hungary believes the success of Israel’s current counter-terrorism operations is in the entire world’s interest, so that a repeat of the “brutal terrorist attack” suffered by Israel can be prevented, Szijjártó said.

Szijjártó said he and Katz had also discussed the Gaza hostage situation and were in agreement that Hamas needed to release all of the hostages as soon as possible. He added that Hungary and Israel were doing everything they could to secure the release of the dual Israeli-Hungarian citizen still being held hostage.

Szijjártó added that he and Katz will continue their talks in person in Jerusalem next week.

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Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on Tuesday said he had spoken with Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, his Kuwaiti counterpart, by phone. “We were in agreement that the direction of the armed conflicts in our regions is increasingly worrying,” Szijjarto said in a post on Facebook. He said he and his counterpart had reaffirmed their mutual commitment to avoiding escalation in both Ukraine and the Middle East. “We were in agreement that if either of the two conflicts were to escalate, it would have a dramatic impact on global security and would lead to the strengthening of extremist forces worldwide,” Szijjártó said.

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