{"id":49811,"date":"2024-01-25T07:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T07:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/hungarian-pm-to-urge-parliament-to-ratify-sweden-s-nato-accession\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T07:52:43","slug":"hungarian-pm-to-urge-parliament-to-ratify-sweden-s-nato-accession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/hungarian-pm-to-urge-parliament-to-ratify-sweden-s-nato-accession\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian PM to urge parliament to ratify Sweden&#8217;s NATO accession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just finished a phone call with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. I reaffirmed that the Hungarian government supports the NATO membership of Sweden. I also stressed that we will continue to urge the Hungarian National Assembly to vote in favor of Sweden&#8217;s accession and conclude the ratification at the first possible opportunity,&#8221; Orban wrote on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>With T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s ratification on Tuesday, Hungary remains the only NATO member country that hasn&#8217;t approved Sweden&#8217;s application.<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg tweeted shortly after his talks with Orban: &#8220;Good call with PM Viktor Orban of Hungary. I welcome the clear support of the Prime Minister and his government for Sweden&#8217;s NATO membership. I look forward to the ratification as soon as parliament reconvenes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian Parliament is set to reconvene in the second half of February.<\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian government submitted the draft resolution required for the ratification of Sweden&#8217;s NATO accession to parliament in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Following Ankara&#8217;s approval, Orban sent an invitation letter to his Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson asking him to visit Hungary for talks on Sweden&#8217;s NATO integration and strengthening bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-63026\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/after.jpg\" alt=\"NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (left) greets Hungary&#039;s Prime Minister Viktor Orban during arrivals for a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11, 2023. (PHOTO \/ AP)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday pledged to urge his country&#8217;s National Assembly to ratify Sweden&#8217;s NATO accession.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000063025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000063025,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bc352fd6-df0c-4267-9e68-b7376b93dde0.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bc352fd6-df0c-4267-9e68-b7376b93dde0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bc352fd6-df0c-4267-9e68-b7376b93dde0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bc352fd6-df0c-4267-9e68-b7376b93dde0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bc352fd6-df0c-4267-9e68-b7376b93dde0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/bc352fd6-df0c-4267-9e68-b7376b93dde0.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000063025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49811"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49811"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}