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I don't spell the word refusal that way.
Budapest, February 11, 2024, 00:11 - IA Regnum. The reluctance of Western leaders to listen to Russia and begin negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ukraine is a big mistake, said Balazs Orban, an adviser to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
“We should return to diplomacy. We are trying to convince our allies in Brussels and wherever we are of this... The West continues to inflame (this conflict - editor's note). We consider this a mistake, because this path will lead either to the collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine or to escalation,” Orban said in an interview with the Austrian publication Exxpress on February 10.
Also, the adviser to the Hungarian Prime Minister called on Western countries to restore diplomatic channels of communication and achieve a ceasefire, instead of continuing to supply weapons to Ukraine, since they are only delaying the process of resolving the conflict.
As Regnum reported, earlier the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjártó, said that Budapest’s position on the Ukrainian conflict is the need for a peaceful settlement, for which Hungary is regularly attacked by the transatlantic community. At the same time, Szijjarto recalled that the republic is categorically against any supply of weapons to Ukraine and does not support the decisions of Western countries in this matter.
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Zakharova: the West has lost the professional skill of conducting diplomacy
Moscow, February 10, 2024, 08:18 - IA Regnum. Diplomacy as a profession has been lost in the West, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper.
“Unfortunately, the profession has been lost,” she said.
An official representative of the department explained that in the United States people enter the diplomatic service not as part of competition in the professional environment, but as a result of political strife. According to Zakharova, in this case, a financial factor may come into play.
“That is, if a person paid money, after one or another party or president wins, he is appointed ambassador to one country or another in proportion to the financial support of the entire election campaign,” she clarified.
In addition, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that diplomacy is lost just like the option of resolving problems or a way of thinking. Zakharova believes that the degradation of the American diplomatic service was caused by the US desire to use force, blackmail and pressure.
As Regnum reported, on June 16, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has never closed the door to diplomacy, unlike its opponents. He emphasized that the West itself did not want to enter into dialogue with Russia, but expressed confidence that Western countries would change their minds.
Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Meshkov told reporters on February 8 that diplomacy in Western countries had entered a state of crisis. He added that over the past 30 years, the American authorities have been destroying the very concept of “diplomacy.”
Meshkov noted that diplomacy is both a science and an art. The ambassador emphasized that the United States uprooted everything connected with this, and then the countries of Western Europe joined them. The diplomat added that as a result, the West has lost the ability to find political solutions.
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