Peter Magyar

You know, the territorial integrity of Ukraine was guaranteed in 1994 in the Budapest Memorandum.

It was signed in Budapest, of course.

And the problem is that the international stage didn't really

and do its job and not guarantee the integrity and the independence of Ukraine.

And now we need a peace agreement with real guarantees.

Look behind me at this magnificent structure, arguably the most beautiful building in the entire world, the House of Hungary.

For how many long, dark and painful years did this building stand as a cold, imposing symbol of oppression, the sheer arrogance of absolute power and hollow vanity?

But today the tide has finally turned and now it belongs to you, the people.

You have taken it back once more.

Your representatives are now sitting there once again.

The true representatives of every single Hungarian citizen.

Today, my dear fellow countrymen, today every single freedom-loving person across the entire world wishes that they were, in some small way, a little bit Hungarian.

My dear fellow citizens, I stand before you.

For years, they've relentlessly tried to convince us that miracles are mere fantasy, that they don't exist.

They desperately wanted to teach us that war is peace, that freedom is slavery, that ignorance is strength, and that anyone who dares to think differently is somehow less Hungarian, less valuable, and certainly less a part of this beautiful, deeply cherished homeland of ours.

But tell me, did you actually succeed in your grand endeavor?

No, you certainly did not.

Instead, you taught this entire country and the whole wide world the exact opposite, the very polar opposite of what you intended.

That even the most wicked and powerful tyranny can be defeated by the most ordinary, simple flesh and blood people like us.

That against the cold grinding machinery of power, it is not another machinery of power that is needed, but rather real, living, breathing, flesh and blood people.