Ukrainian foreign minister responds ironically to Orbán's statement on Ukraine's EU and NATO membership
1 October, 19:59
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Hungary could withdraw from international institutions if it is unhappy with Ukraine's membership.
Source: Sybiha on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda
Details: The minister was responding to statements by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who said that Hungary does not want to "belong to the same integration format with the Ukrainians".
Quote from Sybiha: "There are many integration formats to which the Hungarians and Ukrainians already belong together.
The United Nations, Council of Europe, WTO, IMF, CEI, EBRD, Danube Commission, OPCW, IAEA, FAO and dozens more.
Viktor Orbán, so Hungary intends to leave them all, right?"
Background:
- Before the start of the informal European Council summit in Copenhagen on 1 October, Orbán said that Ukraine is not a sovereign state, since its bills are paid by European Union states.
- This was not the first time Orbán said that Ukraine is not sovereign. He also made this claim when commenting on the violation of Ukraine's airspace by Hungarian drones.
- After President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the incursion of a Hungarian reconnaissance drone into Ukrainian territory, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that "Zelenskyy is becoming obsessed with anti-Hungarian sentiment" and "is seeing ghosts".
- Sybiha said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had gathered all the necessary evidence of the Hungarian reconnaissance drone's incursion into Ukrainian territory and published its route "for the blind Hungarian officials".
- Szijjártó responded by claiming that it was fake and that Ukraine was discrediting itself.
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