"I hope the next Summit of the Council of Europe will find us in a peaceful, strong, unified Europe of stable nation-states."

President Katalin Novák received Pope Francis in a ceremonial setting on the first stop of his apostolic journey to Hungary. In the Sándor Palace, the Holy Father held talks with Katalin Novák face-to-face and also met with the Hungarian Prime Minister.

The war has been raging for a year, and we can still not see the end of it – said President of Hungary Katalin Novák in her video message on Twitter, recalling that the war in Ukraine broke out a year ago.

Katalin Novák remarked that -also as a mother – it is deeply moving to see the victims, the families torn apart, the devastation of the future, the despair.

The Head of State stressed: Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty cannot be called into question, and war criminals deserve to be punished.