BUDAPEST, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that he was shocked by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, while some opposition parties condemned Trump's decision.
There is a consensus in Hungary that climate change is a reality and dangerous thing, Orban said in an interview with public Kossuth Radio. Climate change is of a global nature, so an action at a global level is required, he added.
This is contrary to what the U.S. president has decided, Orban said.
Opposition LMP (a green party) parliamentary deputy group leader Erzsebet Schmuck said that her party would call on Hungarian President Janos Ader and Orban to ask the signatories of the agreement to exert international pressure on the U.S. president. The LMP believed that Trump's decision sent the worst message to the world that the world's second largest emitter of greenhouse gases was not interested in climate change and the destruction of the planet's ecosystem.
Democratic Coalition deputy leader Csaba Molnar said in a statement that Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement was "a damaging and indefensible crime against the world."
According to opposition Egyutt (Together) Party, Trump's announcement could endanger the climate agreement and the struggle against global climate change. Nevertheless, the party was confident that the the United States would soon review its current decision.
