This Wednesday, during an official visit to Cuba, the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, said that the blockades and sanctions are a failure, and compared the European punitive measures against Russia with those imposed by the US government on the Island.
“Policies based on blockades and sanctions have failed from the point of view of their ends and have only caused people suffering,” Szijjártó said in Havana, where he was received by Miguel Díaz-Canel.
I received the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary, Péter Szijjártó. We reaffirm our willingness to continue strengthening bilateral relations. We exchanged on the potential to diversify the links between both countries in sectors of mutual interest. pic.twitter.com/iGexFbTFAg
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) January 18, 2023
Szijjártó exposed in a video posted on Facebook, and reviewed by the Efe agency, that in many cases the sanctions and blockades have hurt those who have imposed them the most.
The minister maintained that Hungary, like the other member states of the European Union (EU), supports at the UN every year the resolutions calling for the lifting of the blockade.
Szijjártó affirmed that the world lives in a time of risks with the wars in Ukraine and other countries, with high inflation, food shortages and increasingly thick migratory flows.
He stressed that international politics must return to the path of mutual respect, and that the era of sanctions and blockades must be replaced by one of dialogue.
The Hungarian government, headed by the nationalist Viktor Orbán, considered Moscow’s best ally in the EU, opposes community sanctions against Russia despite having ratified them so far.
During his stay in Havana, Szijjártó plans to meet with his counterpart Bruno Rodríguez, and with the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Rodrigo Malmierca.
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