Djuric: Serbia and Hungary on the Right Side of History and Protection of True Democracy

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Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric said on June 30, after a meeting with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto in Szeged, that the two states were on the right side of history and on the side of protecting true democracy, adding that staged attempts at toppling the two states would not succeed.

Djuric told reporters that he was standing side by side with the Hungarian minister in opposing efforts to undermine the legitimately elected leaderships of Serbia and Hungary through foreign action, organized with the aim of undermining the democratically expressed will of the people and turning it in a direction that suited power centers way outside of Belgrade and outside of Budapest, the Serbian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"That is why I can openly say here that, contrary to what is claimed and the pressures exerted, it is exactly us who are on both the right side of history and on the side of protection of true democracy, not one that is imposed via paid media, via certain social organizations that are financed from abroad and via a script that aims to change the authorities elected by the democratic will of citizens in both countries by using illegal methods and with foreign interference," said Djuric.

There is, he noted, full solidarity on this matter in Serbia and Hungary because the aforementioned power centers are trying to bring down both Serbia and Hungary following the same recipe, and the targets of those centers are Aleksandar Vucic, as the president of Serbia, and Viktor Orban, as the prime minister of Hungary.

Minister Szijjarto warned that actions financed and supported from abroad were under way, whose objective was to dismiss the governments in Central European countries where those who advocated the sovereignty of their respective states were in power.

In that situation, according to him, the cooperation between Hungary and Serbia becomes even more important, especially in the sphere of energy, given that the two states do not want to give up cheap Russian gas and oil.

Szijjarto also said that Hungary did not want Ukraine to join the EU through a shortened procedure, because that would be dangerous for both the economy and security of Europe, but that he supported the acceleration of EU enlargement in the Western Balkan region.