Hungary's Foreign Minister Rules Out Involvement In Ukraine Conflict: Says 'This Is Not Our War'

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (L) and Hungary's Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó arrive for the second day of a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, 12 July 2018. [Pool/EPA/EFE]

News 360: Hungary rules out involvement in Ukraine conflict: «This is not our war».

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has ruled out that the country could get involved in any way in the conflict in Ukraine because, he says, it is not Hungary's war, although he has expressed the importance of the cessation of hostilities in Eastern Europe.

"The Hungarian people are not responsible for this war, the Hungarian people can do nothing for the outbreak of war. The Hungarian people did not want this war," Szijjarto said, according to 'Magyar Nemzet'.

"This is not our war, we do not even want to get involved, we have to stay out of this war (...) This is the decision of the Hungarian people", the foreign minister asserted, alluding at this point to the latest election results.

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WNU Editor: None of my friends, readers, and contacts in Hungary want to get involved in this war. And they are not alone. With the exception of maybe a person or two that I know in the UK, there is no desire among the people that I know in Europe to get involved in this war.

Unfortunately, most European leaders have a different view, and getting involved in this war by escalating it is their priority now. But fortunately for the Hungarian people, who voted decisively for Orban in elections last year because of his views on the war, the Hungarian leadership understand the risks and potential disaster if a policy of involvement is followed, and are choosing to stay out of it.

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