“During the course of our history, we Serbs and Hungarians didn’t always have such a good relationship as we have today. This is a fact that no one can dispute by now. There is a lot of hard work in this,” he added.
“The peace, stability and economic future of the Balkans will be safe if there is and there remains trust and strategic partnership between Serbia and Hungary,” he underlined. “What is friendship in everyday life, what is a good relationship between our peoples is called ‘political alliance’ in international politics. This means in summary that you know that you can count on the other one. If there is a problem, you can turn to them; if they face challenges in life, you help without asking. These are the kinds of times we’re living in now. The significance of our cooperation points beyond the relationship of the two peoples, and is meant to stabilise the whole Balkans world, the whole region. […] Let’s not be modest, without Serbian-Hungarian cooperation, there is no stability in the Balkans region as a whole,” he pointed out.
“We are undergoing changes in the world today which make Serbian-Hungarian relations all the more precious. The old world that we lived in until now is falling apart before our eyes,” he explained, adding that Western Europe “is losing what’s left of its influence as we speak.” “The Americans and the Russians are negotiating about the future, while the Brusselites are merely waiting in the hall, peeking through the keyhole. Europe is still making war plans, while everyone else is talking about peace,” the Prime Minister detailed.
He said you could even laugh at this, but the situation is more in the category of alarming and dangerous “because Brussels’ leaders are finding themselves so much under the influence of their own war propaganda that this is now becoming a risk to the security of the whole continent.”
Therefore, in his view, alliances such as the one that ties the Hungarians and Serbs together are gaining in significance. There is vitality in the Hungarians and the Serbs. “We don’t want to surrender ourselves, we don’t want to disappear off the map, we don’t want to become insignificant. However, each of us on our own is not strong enough. Individually, on our own, we are mere trees, but together we’re a forest, and a forest withstands any storm. This is the philosophy of Central European cooperation. If we cooperate, if we combine forces, if we help each other out and if we stand with each other against the political destabilisation attempts organised from abroad, we’ll find ourselves in a more beautiful world,” he stressed.
He added that “history rarely offers two peoples such a good chance that we now received.” He highlighted that Serbs and Hungarians had every right to believe that István Pásztor’s life work would be eternal. “We have good reason to believe so as there are people who and whose life work span and connect together entire historical eras, and who don’t just live in history, but also shape it,” he added. He said no one did as much for Hungarian-Serbian relations as the late president of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians did.
Regarding Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, he said he is a leader that there are few of, “despite the fact that we would need more of them in European politics.”
