“We don't arrest our guests” - Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán defended his government’s decision not to arrest Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Budapest, despite an International Criminal Court warrant requiring member states to detain him.
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00:00Why didn't we detain the Prime Minister of the State of Israel?
00:04Given that the International Criminal Court would have expected this,
00:08we can give three answers to this.
00:10The first one is unusual.
00:12We don't usually detain guests.
00:14The second thing is that we didn't want to.
00:16Because Israel is our friend,
00:18and the purpose and meaning of foreign policy
00:20is to gather friends for a country.
00:22And it's good that Israel is not an enemy of Hungary,
00:26it's not even a country, it's a friend.
00:28The third thing is that even if we wanted to,
00:30we wouldn't have been able to tell the police
00:32to do this,
00:34because we never announced it.
00:36We didn't make this international contract
00:38a part of Hungarian law.
00:40So we can say that the Prime Minister
00:42was 100% safe in Hungary.