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Peter Szijjarto, Hungarian Foreign Minister hits at the US ambassador’s comments and says, “no one from outside can tell us how to live”

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Peter Szijjarto, Hungarian Foreign Minister lashed out at David Pressman, the US ambassador to Hungary on Thursday for his attempts of interfering in Hungary’s internal affairs.

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Szijjarto’s remarks have come in the midst of the growing diplomatic friction between the US and Hungary. While speaking at a press conference, Szijjarto said neither the US nor any other country’s ambassador working in Hungary has the right to interfere in Hungary’s domestic policy.

Szijjarto said, “'It is completely irrelevant what (Ambassador David) Pressman or any other ambassador thinks about the domestic political process in Hungary because it has nothing to do with him. It is not his place to interfere in Hungary’s internal affairs”.

Szijjarto added, “We do not accept governors or regents. He was not sent to tell us how to live in our own country. That era is over. Hungary is a sovereign country, and no one from outside can tell us how to live”.

In responding to Szijjarto’s comments, Pressman said on social media that, “respectfully, we do not consider Russia’s attempt to unilaterally redraw the borders of Europe as just a domestic political development in Hungary”.

Earlier, Pressman criticized the Hungarian government after Hungarian government officials denounced Western sanctions imposed on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine and expressed statements supporting the views of Moscow.

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