Budapest plans to support a US resolution on Ukraine, according to Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto
Budapest will support the US-proposed peace resolution on Ukraine rather than that tabled by fellow EU member states, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced, ahead of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Monday.
The US has refused to support a resolution backed by Ukraine and the EU, which calls for an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from territories claimed by Kiev and condemns “Russian aggression.”
Washington has asked Brussels to consider removing the motion and has put forward its own draft, which refrains from blaming Moscow exclusively for the war and calls for a swift end to hostilities.
“The reason is simple: liberal European leaders who support the war have been fueling the conflict for three years, and the pro-peace [US President] Donald Trump is taking steps to end it,” Szijjarto explained in a post on Facebook.
He also noted that thanks to the recent US-Russia talks in Riyadh, the end of the war in Ukraine is “closer than ever before in the last three years.”
Speaking at the UN General Assembly on Monday, US Deputy Representative to the UN Dorothy Shea called for the scrapping of the Ukrainian motion and stressed that what is needed is a “resolution that recognizes the commitment of all UN member states to a lasting end to the war” and that the draft proposed by the US “does just that.”
“The United States opposes the introduction of another resolution, and that is why we cannot support the Ukrainian resolution and call for its withdrawal in favor of a strong statement committing us to ending the conflict and working to achieve lasting peace,” Shea concluded.
Meanwhile, Russia’s representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has noted that Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, as well as a number of EU politicians, appear to be panicking over the fact that Russia and the US have started direct talks on resolving the Ukraine crisis.
“They are trying to ignore the fact that the wind has changed and a clear demand for peace has taken shape, the only obstacle in the way of which is the Kiev usurper and his European accomplices,” the Russian diplomat said at the UNGA session.
