Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó will speak at the Minsk Conference on Eurasian Security in Belarus this week.
A spokesman for the Belarusian Foreign Ministry said that this event “will be used as an opportunity to discuss and outline the promising contours of future Eurasian security, the future security of our region.”
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Syrian Foreign Minister Sabbagh will be present there.
According to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), such a conference should become an “alternative” to the Munich Security Conference, Politico reports.
The Hungarian Foreign Minister’s closeness to Russia and Belarus is not surprising, since Szijjártó regularly visits Moscow, St. Petersburg and Minsk.
The last time he was in Russia, in October, Szijjártó spoke at a St. Petersburg forum organized by Russian state energy giant Gazprom to declare that “safe and affordable gas supplies to Hungary are impossible” without Russian cooperation, “like this whether we want it or not.”
But he also traveled to Minsk at the end of May to meet with his colleague. Szijjarto was the first high-ranking official from a European Union country to visit Belarus in 2023 since Alexander Lukashenko’s regime began a crackdown on the opposition in 2020.
Source: Racurs
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