Orbán responds to Yushchenko: asks him not to blackmail Hungary
15 March 04:07
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán responded to an open letter from former President Viktor Yushchenko urging him to “return to the light.”
He posted his response on social media platform X, according to [Komersant].
Orbán addresses Yushchenko as “my old friend” and begins his letter with a historical overview of how Hungarians have always been fighters for freedom.
“We continue this tradition today. Please warn your president: hands off the freedom of the Hungarians. Please convince your president not to blackmail or threaten either my country or its leaders,” writes the Hungarian prime minister.
“Hungarians are a free people. Your struggle for freedom does not give you the right to blackmail us or dictate terms to us. Please make it clear to your president that the state terrorism he used to blow up the German Nord Stream gas pipeline will not work against Hungary,” Orbán asserts.
He also did not miss the opportunity to remind that Hungary has taken in Ukrainian refugees, opening Ukrainian-language schools for children—”something you deny to Hungarians in Transcarpathia.”
“I thank God that the country with which you are currently at war is not an enemy of either Hungary or Hungarians today, and we have no intention of changing that. We, as before, want to remain your friends, but we will not participate in your war,” Orbán writes.
“I hope that your fratricidal war does not result in the fatal weakening of the Ukrainian state and that we can return to the old spirit of Ukrainian-Hungarian friendship,” he states.
The Hungarian prime minister added at the end that he is ready to offer Yushchenko or his family a “safe haven” if he is ever “threatened by some foreign state.”
In his letter, Yushchenko called on Orbán to return to European brotherhood, where honor is valued, not dubious political deals.
