BUDAPEST, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday issued an urgent call for negotiations over Ukraine, saying that was the only alternative to war, Hungary News Agency MTI reported.

"We want peace, not bloodshed," he said in an address to parliament.

Ahead of a European Union (EU) summit in Brussels on Thursday, Orban said he would call on the EU to take immediate actions.

However, he underlined that those measures must not be military. Instead, Russia and the EU have to negotiate, he said, adding that the measures had to be "clear-cut, immediate, and must demonstrate integration."

Orban said he would put forward his proposal in Brussels, but did not offer specifics.

Hungary's interests lie in having a democratic Ukraine for a neighbor, "in which Ukraine's citizens, including members of minority groups -- including the Hungarian minority -- are secure and feel at home," he said.

That being the case, Hungary cannot accept Kiev's repeal of a law granting use of several languages in official proceedings, Orban said. Hungarian was one of the languages involved. Orban called the decision "illegitimate" and insisted that the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine must not be restricted.