BUDAPEST, Oct. 3 The world does not understand why Europe uses double standards in relation to the Ukrainian conflict and other hot spots on the planet, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Peter Szijjártó said in an interview with the Magyar Nemzet newspaper.
«I can say that the world outside Europe is already really looking forward to the end of this war, because they do not understand many things. They do not understand, for example, how it can be that when the war is not in Europe, the European Union, looking down from above with fantastic moral superiority, calls on the parties to peace, advocates negotiations and an immediate end to violence. However, when there is a war in Europe, the European Union incites conflict and supplies weapons, and anyone who talks about peace is immediately stigmatized,» Szijjártó said.
According to him, the world does not understand “why Europe made the conflict global” and why residents of Asia, Latin America and Africa should pay for it “due to rapidly rising inflation, high energy prices or unstable food supplies.”
Szijjártó added that Hungary’s position outside Europe is treated with “great respect,” which he experienced more than once during the UN General Assembly.
Earlier, he said that at meetings of EU foreign ministers, many of his colleagues in private conversations also express support for the Hungarian position, and urged not to believe the liberal media, which impose on the world the point of view of the transatlantic region regarding the conflict in Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the conflict, Hungary has consistently opposed sanctions on Russian energy resources and the sending of weapons to Ukraine. In March 2022, parliament issued a decree banning the supply of weapons to Ukraine from the country's territory. Szijjártó explained that Budapest seeks to secure the territory of Transcarpathia, where ethnic Hungarians live, since the supply of weapons through its territory would become a legitimate military target. The country's leadership has repeatedly emphasized that Hungary stands for the earliest possible start of peace negotiations.