Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó on Friday accused the US ambassador to Budapest, David Pressman, of conducting “war propaganda” and trying to push the Hungarian state into war in Ukraine, even though Hungary is part of the “global majority that supports peace”. » , reports the official Hungarian agency MTI, which is quoted by Agerpres.

During a visit to the border zone with Ukraine, where he met with Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Hungary on Thursday, David Pressman expressed “concern” about “the deepening of ties between Hungary and Russia at a time when, on the contrary, they should be limited » as a result of Russian military aggression against Ukraine.

The US ambassador also told Hungary’s conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that he should fight Russia, not “foster” progressive ideology. “While we should be focusing on the hot war right next to us, others are focusing on something else, fake wars, culture wars,” the US ambassador said, referring to Hungary’s prime minister.

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Sijarto accuses the US ambassador of acting like a governor

Ambassador Pressman “receives an A+ (the highest grade in American universities – ed.) for war propaganda,” Hungary’s foreign minister responded Friday, responding to a question related to the American diplomat’s statements at a press conference.

“I want to be very clear: an ambassador is an ambassador, not a governor,” Sijarto told the US ambassador. “Ambassador Pressman says that we should focus on war (…), this is also clear from his posts and statements (…) But we want peace, not war,” the Hungarian minister added.

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