REPLAY: U.S. Vice President Vance, Hungarian Prime Minister Orban Hold Joint Press Conference in Budapest

Good day! Good day, ladies and gentlemen! I respectfully greet you, and with distinguished respect I greet you. His Excellency Mr. G. D. Vance, Vice President of the United States of America, 50th Vice President, With respect on the occasion of the official visit to Hungary, at the Csajtótájékoztató event. I welcome Mr. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, the members of the American and Hungarian delegations and all our dear guests. Good day, ladies and gentlemen! If permitted, I will speak in Hungarian. We warmly and sincerely welcome Vance, Lord of the Alelnok, to Hungary. Ladies and gentlemen, my dear friend, the last time I visited was 35 years ago, the last time I was in Hungary, We haven't had a visitor from the United States of this high rank in 20 years. Twenty years as friends is a long time. With the election of President Trump, an era of golden opportunity has dawned upon our connections. When we took a close look, 2025 turned out to be the year of records in economic cooperation. The 26th year was remarkable, with a 50% increase in commercial turnover, In March, six American companies announced significant investments in Hungary. Over 100 billion forints in value. Today, we reinforced the strategic-level cooperation we have achieved in the fields of aerospace and defense. We thank President Trump and Vice President Vance for standing with Hungary in recent years and for doing so even today. The United States is the world's strongest country, and I am pleased to say that they are our allies today. Hungary's peace and security are thus guaranteed. Ladies and gentlemen, we have also discussed how Europe is heading towards the most severe energy crisis of all time, with drastic price increases we are witnessing. If we do not act in time, shortages of energy, oil, and gas may arise. In this situation, U.S.-Hungarian energy cooperation is particularly important. Without it, we would not be able to guarantee Hungary's energy security, nor could we maintain the reduction in utility prices. We discussed the United States' peace efforts. Hungary has always supported the United States, including with regard to President Donald Trump. We have been living in the shadow of a war for four years. We are firmly convinced that if Donald Trump had been president of the United States in 2022, this war would never have broken out. If the Europeans, more precisely Brussels, did not obstruct the president's peace efforts, peace could already have been achieved in Ukraine. I also spoke to the President regarding the fact that an unusually harsh and open foreign intelligence operation is taking place in Hungary, interfering in the electoral process. In this light, we particularly appreciate and welcome the decisions made by the President of the United States, which ended American financial intervention in the political processes of other countries. I've been looking forward to this meeting for a long time, and I'm grateful that it could finally take place. We also reviewed the major issues of Western civilization with the president. I won't reveal a secret: there is a continuous exchange of ideas and sharing of experiences arising from governmental work between us. particularly in four areas: migration, gender ideology, family policy, and global security. Indeed, Hungary possesses substantial experience and an extensive network of Central European and Balkan connections. We have reached the conclusion today that continuing our cooperation is in the interest of both parties. The strategy of cooperation between the two countries will remain continuous and enduring in the future. With heartfelt gratitude, I thank the Deputy President for honoring us with his visit to Hungary. Mr. Prime Minister, thank you very much. I now call upon Mr. G. D. Vance, the 50th Ambassador of the United States of America, to deliver his statement. We will most likely return to Budapest, and my son will be a child for 20 months, until our fourth daughter. This is a special method created among the Hungarians. Thank you, Boss, although he is a friend of the Russian Orbán-led government and a friend of the highly questionable Orbán-led government. When the Boss and the friends of the Hungarian government work together, they can achieve great things. We are still here because we want to cook special things, we want to create special things. That is my most delicate task: assisting my government's government's government friend, just as the Russian Orbán-type government friend does at this stage. It's not because I'm here, but I'd like to say that everyone, Unlike bureaucracies and bullies, who did everything they did to set up Hungarian people because they don't like the leader Aki most probably stood up for the Hungarian people. I think it's important that I say this. There are so many things we could understand. There are so many economic communities, Such a large investment came from Hungary to Hungary. I think Viktor Orbán was the most important leader in Europe. in your question, the energy, safety, and resistance. It is very traditional to see governments and leaders They are talking about energy with the community of various European capitals. when it was likely that Viktor Orbán's politics should have been supported from Hungary if it had been about the energy they understood, It will be better, because of what is happening in Hungary, between our two countries, there is a moral community. What Viktor Orbán and Hungary together presented and with the community of Trump's governments, to the Hungarian community, the government The government stated that the children should have gone to the servants. They should have been sought out, not indoctrinated. The government stated that European and American families I should have helped the governments. I am here because Viktor Road. We have seen much among the European governments. that the government in Russia and Ukraine had to be changed You are absolutely, absolutely, absolutely certain that the government couldn't have been a government, A Trump administration could have been in power four years ago. The most, when a government could be a government, The two individuals who did the most to change the government This is a great government, one that values science, the curious, and the Hungarian people. And finally, I just want to say one more thing about the government. What happened here? What happened between these governments, one of the greatest examples of the divergence between governments and governments, I've already seen it, or I've already seen it. The bureaucracies and the speculators tried to disappear from the Hungarian economy, They tried to make the Hungarians of high quality, They tried to mobilize the Hungarian communities. They did this because they can get to this boy. I think that the Hungarian people, what I would like them to do, they want to ask themselves the questions no, who is pro- or anti-Europe No, I don't know who is pro- or anti-American. Tell me who your pro is. He is a pro-Hungarian. My question to the Hungarian person is, why did the questions start with the Hungarian person? I am here to help the Hungarian person, In this campaign, yet when I spoke with Viktor, We didn't talk about politics. We talked about it being ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba There are five things. I need you A magyar people necessarily necessarily necessary necessity necessarily in the United States, This type of defeat is necessary. And everywhere from the digital sensor realm, why the bureaucracies and the Brusliaks They are asking our social media companies, which information they provide to Hungarian entrepreneurs. I think that Hungarian entrepreneurs Children. They are allies in their own country, Could they be the ones to watch? any information you would like about the electrician, if there's no one to the Hungarian entrepreneur, He would like to have children. Regulation, democracy differently among people. It's a part, why are we here, It's a part of it, why the United States? This is what they initiated. but we think that such regulation as I am a bureaucrat and Brussels Probably personal. I'm not telling the Hungarian people, how to start a business I trust the bureaucracies. and the bureaucracies. Viktor, thank you, It's good to see you. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. A few questions for your time. The following question is on the Hungarian page, and then his foot. Were they mentioned during the hearing? Possibilities for the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war? Any developments? I would like to ask the President, however, or I would request How does the President comment on the threats? Amit Hungary, or in person Addressed to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Thank you very much. We talked about the Russian-Ukrainian war. It's a painful topic. Finally, we also spoke about the war between two Christian countries. Rásul across Europe. Thus, these two sentences convey the seriousness of this war. I have always greatly respected the President of the United States. from the very first moment onwards, talking about the current president from the very first moment He considered these two dimensions to be the most important. Between two Orthodox, deeply Christian countries in Europe a war breaks out, in which tens and hundreds of thousands are killed Flexible and become soldiers in the war. This is such a horrible thing, that Every device must be commanded to stop. And after the United States He supported this war before Trump became president. for this reason, our support is particularly valuable the current position of the United States, It is clearly on the side of peace. Therefore, if an American and a Hungarian politician meet, I don't know, I can't talk about the Russia-Ukraine war. Moreover, this war is taking place near Hungary's border. People from Hungary also die in this war. Many Hungarian people live in Ukraine's territory. They are often brutally targeted, under compelling circumstances, They take them away and they die. So one cannot avoid talking about the Russia-Ukraine war at a gathering like this. Especially because previously the President of the United States had initiated it, for peace to prevail between the United States and Russia, He suggested Hungary, Budapest as the location. I am almost the only possible European location. And Hungary said yes to this. not only the circumstances of this peak of peace, That's what I need to say, up to the level of technical preparation I have discussed this with both the President of the United States and the President of Russia. Therefore, Hungary is now ready for it, if the United States and the Russians think so a peace summit is needed between the two of them Thus, Budapest gladly continues to provide venue and availability for this meeting. That's all I can say about it. One of the largest deliveries to Hungary. That conflict was certainly and properly resolved. between the Russians and the Ukrainians. Let's look at it this way: there's no need to clean up the version from the version. I think Viktor is, I do too. Our United States questioned the version. We don't want the version; we want it completed. That's not the question. The question is how they will finish. And the proposal is that it's not the politicians who are standing at the microphones, They are practically standing on the microphones. when someone else is dealing with conflicts among other children. Do this for proper diplomacy. So I ask the Hungarian people, it is not just the Hungarian people, my people, the Hungarian people in Europe, What is the variant for safety? Would you be able to continue with the children? In this area, area version? Could you continue with these healthy variants? He knows it will be bad. It will be bad in the version, It will be bad in terms of morality, It will be bad for a person's life. We must address security diplomacy. Viktor was better for everyone. how can we help What do the Ukrainians want? What do the Russians want? for safety Shall we continue this process? as you have all heard The president said that that this version is the largest, those versions, He tried his best. Shall we continue with this version? The president asked. How do we continue this version? We need it. We need Europe, Those professions interest me. I am interested. How can we prepare this version? Viktor was largely responsible for it, that is why the president he asked in Budapest, but I think, if we were to hold hands together these leaders, This is the perfect place, how we can do this. Otherwise, one place a place Thank you very much for the second question I give it to the Patriota. Németi Noémi American-Hungarian energy cooperation What does it mean in practice? in this situation, after the United States, How does Brussels see whether it will be lifted or not? on the Russian oil sanctions related to energy? Thank you very much for the second question at the Vice President's Vence, If I could, I would. Thank you very much. So the last Regarding the U.S. intelligence report, in Ukraine had the opportunity in the American election, to help in a democracy. Still report it, in Ukraine the intelligence In Hungary as well an operating zone What political motivation a possibility in Hungary conservative-patriotic political forces at the Vice President's Are you in Hungary? Thank you very much. And that is why less attention is given to it. Now You must make it understandable to Hungarians the coming Sunday I am interested in the election results. Meanwhile, something is happening. I will change everything. That is, that which strategy under the auspices of amely the Europeans so far They supported the Ukrainians. in this war, It came to an end, it failed. Eleve is a extremely A strange thought it was, that the Ukrainians helped, it is possible to Imagine a situation where the prolonged war the Russian Federation into a very difficult economic situation come on, you know the Ukrainians and from the perspective of the Europeans who support them favorable in a weakened state They will sit down soon. to the table of debates That was because one A special thought, because economic war continue against another country, What does he have? unlimited energy, It has unlimited raw materials. While the one who wants to win an economic war, neither energy nor raw materials That was a special thought. It could一度 be thought that against the Russians sanctions in the end They will become legendary. to win the economic war. What's happening the most, that suddenly everything became revalued I have it for the Russians. And suddenly They found themselves in a more favorable position than ever before before, voltak And it's the European war The Ukrainian political strategy has failed. It's over. What's next in Hungarian? we focus on elections, not on To Brussels. So I think, here it is completely new we will face the situation, then the following the Hungarian elections. A The situation in Hungary is difficult. I don't want to hide this. here it is Ukrainians first at 22 years old They closed it at the end. They put them under blockade a pipeline, on which We drove gas from Russia to Hungary. We managed to fend this off after all with that Turkish current. Most, not much after the elections before, in my opinion, with the elections in connection with, and a pro-Ukrainian Creating a chance for the government for its sake, they closed it down, They placed our oil pipeline under blockade. is. That oil pipeline, which is part of the Hungarian economy cold chain The main one Our supply route. This implies that Hungary You must use your reserves. Two things need to be done, Even though they shut us out from the oil, one must see the Hungarian economy, and the Hungarian consumers and Hungarian families with fuel and energy, you have to be it We must incentivize the Ukrainians to Open the line. We have a plan for this, and we will carry out this plan step by step. we carry it out step by step, and at the end I am convinced that after the national forces win in Hungary the election, for the Ukrainians return to the oil blockade, and again initiate the Friendship Pipeline, and Hungary can return within the framework of normal economic operation between. These are mine Hope is perhaps not Such a strong word—these are my plans. That's how it will be. a