PM Orbán: Hungary welcomes US-Russia talks seeking to bring about peace in Ukraine

Hungary welcomes US-Russia talks seeking to bring about peace in Ukraine, and it has a vested interest in their success, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday after talks with his counterpart from North Macedonia Hristijan Mickoski. Continuing the war would be “bad, dangerous, and a mistake,” he added.

PM Orbán talks about peace

“We have all been living in the shadow of war for three years, and we now have the best hope for peace replacing war,” Orbán told a joint press conference in Budapest.

He added that Hungary was in disagreement with those European Union member states that were “also our friends and allies” but had decided that “Ukraine must continue the war”. “We believe that continuing the war in Ukraine is bad, dangerous, and a mistake,” adding that he would discuss this matter at Thursday’s special summit in Brussels.

Orbán said migration was also an important topic of the talks with Mickoski, adding that Hungary was thankful to North Macedonia because by protecting its borders it was also protecting Hungary.

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