Hungary’s Foreign Minister, Peter Szijjarto, rejected a statement made at Thursday’s NATO meeting in Washington criticizing China’s alleged role in providing support for Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine.
In a communiqué released by the association, treaty members accused Beijing of being a “decisive enabler” of Moscow’s Ukrainian operations while expressing that the communist country may pose a future security risk in Asia.
"NATO is a defense alliance; we can't organize it into an anti-China bloc," Szijjarto told Hungarian state television when asked about the group’s plans for cooperating with Indo-Pacific governments.
Szijjarto’s comments come as Hungary’s Prime Minister and current European Union President, Viktor Orban, met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping earlier this week in Beijing to promote his unilateral peace deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Szijjarto also told the interviewer that allowing Kiev to join the organization "wouldn't strengthen but weaken the unity's alliance."
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