BUDAPEST -- Hungary has offered its airspace, airfields and intelligence cooperation to the United States if military action in Iraq becomes unavoidable, Foreign Minister Laszlo Kovacs told state radio Saturday.

Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy said Hungary, a NATO member since 1999, "supports the United States not only in words but by actions and if a military action becomes unavoidable, we are ready to take part in it by offering our airspace, airfield and intelligence support," said Kovacs.

Medgyessy made his offer to U.S. President George W. Bush during a meeting in Washington late Friday, added Kovacs, who is currently in the U.S. capital with Medgyessy.

Medgyessy also congratulated Bush on the UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously Friday aimed at disarming Iraq, but expressed hopes that the resolution would open the way for a peaceful solution, AFP reported.

Bush has said the resolution has left Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with a choice of either destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction on his own or having them destroyed by U.S. military action.

Medgyessy also said Hungary wanted to support the United States in fighting "terrorists" on the basis of common values and interests, according to Kovaks.

"One can make neither peace nor strike a cease-fire accord with terrorism," Kovacs said.