Hungarian Prime Minister Says Medal Encouragement for What He Will Do for Serbia

Viktor Orban (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was awarded the Order of the Republic of Serbia on a long neckless called it a great honor and an encouragement for what he would do in the best interest of the friendship between Serbia and Hungary.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic issued the decree to decorate the Hungarian official for exceptional merits in developing and solidifying peaceful cooperation and friendly ties between the two states. “I do not accept the honor as a decoration for what I have done so far, but rather for what I will do as of today in the best interest of the Serbian-Hungarian friendship,” Orban said to reporters after a meeting with Vucic.

The Hungarian prime minister said that Serbia and Hungary shared the same mission - “to defend the southern gates of Europe.” “Migrations keep happening again and again, taking on different forms…It is the joint responsibility of Serbs and Hungarians to channel the historic process into the corresponding canal of history,” Orban said.

In a comment on the European Union’s sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, Orban said that “none of us have it easy.” The nature of sanctions is that the decisions to impose them are made away from the targetted state, the Hungarian prime minister said, adding that Hungary “is closer to the sanctioned country Russia.”