Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in an article for Newsweek, called NATO's policies contrary to the Alliance's core values.
„It is worth recalling that the most successful military alliance in world history began as a peace project and its future success depends on its ability to maintain peace, but instead the desire for defensive or offensive war is on the agenda, all this contradicts the basic values of NATO”, Orbán wrote.
According to NATO's policy, the task is to preserve the alliance as a peaceful project. As for the future of NATO, Hungary "does not fully agree with the majority of member countries" who see conflict with other geopolitical powers as inevitable.
„Today, a growing number of voices within NATO argue for the necessity or even the inevitability of military confrontation with other global geopolitical powers. This notion of imminent confrontation acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more NATO leaders believe that conflict is inevitable, the greater the role they will play in its unraveling, Orbán said.
The Hungarian Prime Minister notes that the self-fulfilling nature of this prophecy is becoming more and more evident: there is news that NATO is preparing for a possible operation in Ukraine, and the troops of the countries of the alliance are already close to the Ukrainian front.
„Fortunately, Hungary reached an important agreement with NATO, recognizing our important role in the alliance and exempting us from direct support to Ukraine, whether military or financial... But we must be very cautious about our own abandonment of the values that gave birth to our union. The purpose for which NATO was created - to ensure peace in the interest of stable economic, political and cultural development. "NATO fulfills its purpose when it seeks peace, not war, and war instead of peace will kill itself," Orbán wrote.
On Friday, Orbán and his delegation arrived in Moscow and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He called the visit to Moscow the next stage of the peace mission.
From July 1, Hungary assumed the six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union. Orbán said that the issue of peace in Ukraine will be the main issue during the next six months of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU.
He noted that the Hungarian presidency of the EU does not give him a mandate to negotiate on Ukraine, but it can encourage the countries to start a path that will eventually lead to negotiations.