FM Szijjártó: Hungary proud member of NATO, world’s strongest defence alliance

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Hungary is a “proud and reliable” member of the world’s strongest defence alliance, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday, pledging that Hungary wanted to continue to contribute to the security of the Euro-Atlantic community.

Speaking at a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the foundation of NATO in Brussels, Szijjártó said Hungary’s NATO membership “is a coronation of the desire and struggle for freedom of generations of Hungarians,” according to a statement issued by his ministry.

Twenty-five years ago, in 1999, Hungary was able to re-join “the community of free and sovereign nations of the Euro-Atlantic world, where we always belonged at heart … but forty years of communist oppression kept us physically away from it,” he said.

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“We are proud of our predecessors, who never gave up hope, not even in the darkest years of communist dictatorship, when the Hungarian people was left completely alone,” the minister said.

“Today, we are proud members of the world’s strongest defence alliance. And we are also proud to be a reliable ally, contributing to the security of our community,” Péter Szijjártó said.

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