Szijjarto spoke about the absence of words about Ukraine in the document of the NATO summit

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday, June 24, that for the first time in the last few years, the final document of the NATO summit, which was held in The Hague, would not contain words about the "irreversibility" of Ukraine's path to the alliance.

"The final document of the summit no longer contains the phrase that was in the Washington Declaration last year that Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO," he said after a meeting of the Ukraine—NATO Council at the level of foreign ministers.

Szijjarto also said that this time "the focus is not on further support for Ukraine, but on strengthening collective defense."

"If Ukraine were a member of NATO, it would mean a direct confrontation with Russia. And this would mean a Third World War," the Index publication quotes the diplomat as saying.

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Earlier, on June 24, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the unwillingness of world leaders to see Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit. The politician said that he would be glad to see Zelensky at the European Union (EU) summit scheduled for June 26-27, but spoke out against Ukraine's accession to these associations.