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Orbán said in an interview to public radio that he had issued instructions for the establishment of an organizing committee on Thursday evening, and preparations for the meeting are underway.
“Our three-year struggle for peace shows that when it comes to the biggest issues, it is perseverance and humility that matter most,” Orbán said.
“You must persevere when it’s about a good cause.” Meanwhile, he said “everyone in the European Union, with the exception of Hungary” was pro-war, adding it was therefore “logical” that they were not involved in the Budapest peace summit, “but they shouldn’t be left out of peace”.
Europe should stand up for its own interests and keep its channels of diplomacy open the way Hungary has, he said.
“Europe’s biggest problem is the war, and continuing the war means continuing that problem,” the prime minister said, noting that the EU had spent EUR 180 billion on the war so far.
Hungary’s economic growth, he said, would “double or triple” if the war ended. The “cost and inconvenience that Budapest residents will have to endure during the summit” was therefore worth it for Hungary, he said, arguing that “we can’t make as much money from anything as we can from peace”.
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