FM Szijjártó talked about ‘colour revolutions’ to his Serbian counterpart in Budapest

“Colour revolutions” instigated by international actors in various parts of the world over the past several years all ended in tragedy and destabilised entire regions for the long term, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Thursday.

Addressing a joint press conference with Tanja Miscevic, Serbia’s minister for European integration, Szijjártó said Serbia was the “most obvious example” that showed mankind was living in “an era of dangers”, arguing that the country was seeing “serious outside interference” similarly to the “central European countries with patriotic governments”.

Serbia and Hungary were in the same shoes

“Over the last several years, international actors have inspired several colour revolutions in various parts of the world,” Szijjártó said. “And every single one of these colour revolutions ended in tragedy, destabilising entire regions for the long term.” “We in central Europe reject every attempt to interfere in our internal affairs, and we make it clear that all peoples and nations are represented by their democratically-elected governments rather than various NGOs,” Szijjártó said.

He expressed thanks to US President Donald Trump for “abandoning the political strategy based on interference in other countries’ internal affairs”, emphasising that such attempts at interference in central Europe, including Hungary and Serbia, had “reached an incredible scale”. “Certain political and media players in our countries served and still serve foreign interests,” he said, calling for investigations to identify “what kind of foreign financial resources are used by which political and media players”.