Orbán says that Emmanuel Macron’s speech is “a preparation for war action” and that the date of the European elections, June 9, will be decisive for a scenario of peace or war.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán this Friday accused the European Union (EU) and NATO of preparing Europe to enter the war in Ukraine, and added that he defends a peace agreement.
“What is happening today in Brussels and Washington is a kind of preparation of the environment for a possible direct armed conflict. We could say that it is the preparation for Europe’s entry into the war,” Orbán said in statements to public radio Kossuth.
Both the EU and NATO have stated on several occasions that they do not seek confrontation with Russia.
Orbán said French President Emmanuel Macron said Russia could not win the war and Poland plans to shoot down, with its own weapons, Russian missiles attacking civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
“This is a communication operation in preparation for war action,” Orbán said, also guaranteeing that the June 9 — date of the elections to the European Parliament — decide between peace and war.
The Hungarian government, Moscow’s closest ally in the EU, guarantees that it is in favor of a peace agreement with Russia, even if it means that Ukraine gives up captured territory, and that it will not support an armed Ukraine.
Regarding the Atlantic Alliance, Orbán explained that “Hungary is the country that complies with NATO statutes. “NATO is a defense alliance and its statutes do not speak of military actions outside its territory.”
NATO has operated several times outside its territory, in missions in Bosnia or Libya, some of them with the support of the United Nations, although the international legality of its attack on Serbian positions in 1999 during the Kosovo conflict has been questioned.
The Hungarian Prime Minister, campaigning for his party in the European elections, said that “war planning is taking place at NATO headquarters.”
For this reason, Orbán reiterated that he hopes that in the European elections citizens will send deputies to the European Parliament who are in favor of a peace agreement with Russia.
“This must be achieved and the same must happen in the United States elections” in November, he reiterated.
Source: Observadora
