Hungary defends stopping the delivery of arms to Ukraine to end the war

The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Szijjarto, defended this Monday during his official visit to Belarus the need to end arms shipments to Ukraine if the aim is to stop the war.

"Hungary believes that the international community should take only those measures that allow the war to end. It is necessary to avoid any steps that could lead to an escalation," Szijjarto said after meeting his Belarusian counterpart, Sergei Aleinik, in Minsk.

In this sense, he has highlighted the fact that Hungary is not supplying weapons for this war, but it is providing "important humanitarian assistance to people who are in a difficult situation," reports the Belta news agency.

"When we talk about peace, we see only one path, immediate truce and negotiations. Otherwise, there will be no peace," remarked the head of Hungarian diplomacy, who upon his arrival in Minsk acknowledged that "many will be against this visit".

However, he has assured that the intensity with which the fighting continues makes it necessary to sit down and negotiate peace. "Human lives must be saved now, and this can only be done peacefully," he stressed on her Facebook profile.

"The war in Ukraine is intensifying and more and more people are dying due to hostilities," said Szijjarto, who is confident that the international community will not only act "in the name of peace as soon as possible" but also avoid a " escalation of war".

"Our position is clear. Communication channels must be open. If we do not act in this way, the message of the call for peace could not be transmitted," Szijjarto has defended.

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago now, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been questioned by those who consider that it is positioning itself in profile, if not directly in favor of Russia, which in recent years has in Hungary its main partner in the heart of the European continent.

Throughout this last year, relations between kyiv and Budapest are not going through their best moment and have become difficult over this issue. A few weeks ago, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned the Hungarian ambassador, after Orbán compared the war in Ukraine with that in Afghanistan.