Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said today that Hungary will not take part in the military conflict in Ukraine, just as it once refused to allow itself to be drawn into the fighting in Yugoslavia in 1999 during the NATO aggression.
Orbán said that in 1999, when he was serving his first term as prime minister, then U.S. President Bill Clinton called him and asked him to intervene in the military conflict in Yugoslavia, but that he refused, Magyar Nemzet reported.
The Hungarian prime minister emphasized, at a meeting with activists of the ruling Fidesz party in the western city of Sombathely, that Clinton told him at the time that “Anglo-Saxon soldiers were already there and that it was necessary to open a second front from Hungary’s southern border.”
“I told him: ‘No, sir,’” Orbán said in English.
He stressed that when Hungary decides on war, it should not respond to an order from the American president with: “Yes, sir.”
He reiterated that the Hungarian government does not support the intentions of certain European countries to send their troops to Ukraine. Orbán has previously stated several times that the presence of NATO troops on Ukrainian territory would create the threat of a direct military conflict with Russia.
He also confirmed that Hungary will neither send weapons nor finance the continuation of military operations in Ukraine.
At the beginning of January, Great Britain and France reached an agreement with Ukraine on the deployment of their troops after the end of the war.
Speaking before the Verkhovna Rada on February 3 during a visit to Kyiv, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte claimed that the armed forces of the countries of the “Coalition of the Willing” would be deployed on Ukrainian territory immediately after the conclusion of a peace agreement with Russia.
Rutte said that NATO troops would be present on land, at sea, and in the air. Russia has repeatedly warned that it will not agree to such plans and strongly opposes the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine, as it considers this a threat to national security under the current conditions.
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