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| Orban: Hungary will not participate in possible NATO operations against Russia |
| 2024-06-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Hungary will not participate in possible NATO operations against the Russian Federation in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on June 5. Budapest intends to reach an agreement with NATO that the country will not take part in the bloc's military operations outside its territory, Orban said in an interview with Mandiner magazine. “We would like to enter into an agreement with the future Secretary General (of NATO - editor's note) that we will not participate in NATO operations against the Russians in Ukraine, even if we are NATO members. We will maintain our membership, but we do not want to take part in military operations outside NATO territory, and we must have such an opportunity,” said the Hungarian Prime Minister. Legally, Hungary has such an opportunity, but Budapest would like it to be supported politically, he noted. Orban recalled that one of the candidates for the post of NATO Secretary General, acting. O. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte previously stated that all member states of the bloc must participate in military operations outside NATO territory. The term of office of the current NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expires on October 1, 2024. As Regnum reported, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova previously noted that the NATO exercises, which began on April 26 in Finland in close proximity to the border with Russia, are provocative in nature. She stated that the military bloc is practicing combat operations on Finnish territory as part of the hybrid war being waged against Russia, and Finland, which recently joined NATO, is striving to quickly join this adventure. NATO purposefully involved Finland and Sweden in the bloc in order to begin preparing these countries for aggressive actions against Russia, including in matters relating to the threat to the Russian Northern Sea Route and the Arctic latitudes, a military political scientist, associate professor of the department of political analysis and socio-psychological processes of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics Alexander Perendzhiev. In December 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin called statements about a possible Russian “attack” on NATO complete nonsense, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is not going to attack the states of this military bloc. The Foreign Minister emphasized that it is the West that makes Russia an enemy. |
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