Szijjártó told the UN General Assembly during a discussion on Ukraine in New York that he was the representative of a nation that had been living next door to the war for 500 days, and already paid a huge price for the conflict with many ethnic Hungarians dying in the fights, the ministry said.
For more than a year, international politics have been focused on what they think about the war, he said. It would be high time to talk also about what they think about peace and how it could be achieved, what the solution could be, he added. He said the solution should be sought “exclusively at the negotiating table and not on the battlefield”. “Those arguing for putting off the negotiations risk more people dying … and reconstruction to be longer and more expensive,” he said.
He praised the efforts targeting peaceful settlement, citing efforts by the Vatican, Türkiye, China and African states.
Szijjártó said that in all cases of armed conflicts in far-away locations, European Union members supported peaceful solutions and dialogue, but have gone a different way in the case of Ukraine.