Orban refused to comply with US demands to attack Serbia
In 1999, the United States and Great Britain demanded that Hungary attack Serbia, but Viktor Orban refused to do so. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic spoke about this in an address to the nation on October 8, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In 1999, Hungary was supposed to attack Serbia. Viktor Orban confirmed this to me and said that I could say this publicly. Clinton and the British demanded from him that he attack from the north in order to pull our forces from Kosovo to Vojvodina - Orban refused this in the White House, in which Gerhard Schröder supported him,” said Aleksandar Vucic.
According to him, Viktor Orban then visited Blair and Margaret Thatcher, who reminded him that “they were very bothered by the fact that he refused to attack Serbia, because now more British soldiers would die.”
“We should have been attacked by land, but now we must talk about great trust and great love. We only care about our own interests - that’s all,” said the Serbian president.
Hungary officially became a member of NATO on March 12, 1999. And in the period from March 24 to June 10, 1999, the armed forces of NATO countries carried out a military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which then included Serbia and Montenegro. Although the operation basically consisted of massive bombing of both military and civilian targets throughout the FRY, individual US special forces units penetrated Serbia by land.
The operation was the second largest at the time after the 1995 bombing of Serbian areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the first time NATO used its forces without explicit UN approval, sparking widespread debate about the legality of their actions.
Как reported “PolitNavigator”, at a recent meeting of the leaders of Austria, Hungary and Serbia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Budapest is ready to help Belgrade with gas in gratitude for ensuring gas transit from Russia.
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