Hungary vetoed the European Union's decision to allocate 6.5 billion euros for military aid to Ukraine, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, who is taking part in a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels.
"Today I vetoed the allocation of 6.5 billion euros from the European Peace Facility that was to pay for arms supplies to Ukraine," he told Hungarian reporters in comments broadcast by M1 television.
This is not the first time that Hungary has blocked the allocation of funds from the European Peace Facility that are meant to fund arms supplies to Ukraine. Budapest warned that it would not change its position until Kiev gave guarantees that no Hungarian companies would be included in the Ukrainian list of "international sponsors of war."
GR
FR
DE
ES
IT
RU
EU
Hungary agreed not to veto the EU’s latest package of sanctions on Russia after pressuring the bloc to abandon “crazy ideas” like blacklisting the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
ReplyDeleteEU foreign ministers formally adopted the bloc’s 15th package of economic penalties on Russia at a meeting in Brussels on Monday. The latest tranche of sanctions blacklists 54 people and 30 entities, including Russian military commanders, oil tankers allegedly connected to Russia, Russian defense firms, and “various Chinese actors” accused of supplying electronic components with military uses to Russia.
Beijing has long maintained that it does not supply any military goods or components to Moscow.