Those that need to draw NATO into the battle in Ukraine “need to begin a world struggle,” defence minister Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky mentioned on Tuesday at a global convention organised by the Hungarian Atlantic Council. The convention marked the seventy fifth anniversary of NATO’s founding and the twenty fifth anniversary of Hungary’s membership within the alliance.
Given Hungary’s quarter century as a member of the alliance, “Hungary has an opinion and has the best to at least one, too, and our most vital precedence is peace”, he mentioned in his speech on the occasion entitled European safety: the way forward for Atlanticism and European protection autonomy.
Hungary, he mentioned, was an energetic and dedicated member of NATO and was going all out to develop its armed forces, “which is why it has tripled its protection finances in a decade and raised it to 2 p.c of GDP”.
Szalay-Bobrovniczky mentioned that with out sturdy nationwide and sovereign armed forces, “NATO has no sense”, so it was essential that each one international locations develop their armed forces.
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