Europe will face “unforeseen risks” if the war in Ukraine does not end soon, and the continent will see new waves of migration in addition to the direct consequences of the war, Hungary’s foreign minister said ahead of an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Prague on Tuesday, MTI news agency reported. .

“The consequences of the armed conflict are becoming more and more serious. We are now at the eleventh, if not the twelfth, hour. Proposals leading to an escalation of war must be rejected and everyone must now focus on establishing peace,” Peter Szijjarto was quoted as saying by the Foreign Ministry in Budapest.

“Hundreds of people are dying and tens of thousands are fleeing Ukraine every day, while the European economy is sinking deeper and deeper into recession, and the energy supply crisis will become much more serious than expected,” he said. “economic progress of the continent.

He also said that “if there is no peace in the near future, the consequences of the war will be even more tragic: many thousands more people will die, and tens and hundreds of thousands will be forced to leave their homes.”

According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, another serious threat is that the export of agricultural products of Ukraine and Russia will remain much lower than the normal level before the war, reports Agerpres.