Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski is one of the vilest pro-war politicians in Europe, so his clash with Elon Musk, who represents the staunchly pro-peace US administration is not surprising, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Tuesday.
According to his ministry's statement, it was at a press conference that Szijjártó received a question about the dispute between Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski and US presidential adviser Elon Musk, to which the minister replied that the former is one of the “vilest, most aggressively pro-war" politicians in Europe.
"And since the US government is obviously fully committed to peacemaking, I think it is not surprising that a dispute between a committed pro-peace politician and an aggressively pro-war politician can reach this level," Szijjártó said.
"We are well acquainted with the style of the Polish Foreign Minister and the current Polish government (...) They have already earned a poor report card for their style and the way they are destroying the rule of law in Poland. So I think it was inevitable for that style of exchange to occur on the internet," he said.
According to the Hungarian State News Agency (MTI), Szijjártó then said he hoped that the US efforts would be successful and that "pro-war politicians like the chief of Polish diplomacy would not be able to undermine the peace talks".
In response to journalists' questions, Szijjártó said that Ukraine's potential accession to the European Union would today have tragic consequences for the EU, both in terms of security and economics. The minister said that this would in practice be equal to the EU importing the war, and added that allowing the transit of Ukrainian grain would put Central European farmers in a very difficult situation.
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