Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjarto said that Budapest has always abstained from supplying arms to Kiev, but that Hungary’s largest bank, the OTP, will vote against it as long as it is included in the list of “international sponsors of the war” by Kiev. Szijjarto said this at a press conference with the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, who is the co-chairman of the Russian-Hungarian intergovernmental commission. DEA News.
Szijjarto noted that Hungary still wants Ukraine to remove the OTP bank from its list of “international sponsors of the war”, and that until that happens, Budapest will not agree to pay EU members for arms supplies to Kiev.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that Hungary’s position is that the arms supply prolongs the conflict. Therefore, according to Szijjarto, the Hungarian side did not reach any agreement on the arms supply and “constructively abstained” when it took decisions to allocate money from the European Peace Fund to Kiev for arms supply. However, due to the situation of the OTP bank, Budapest plans to stop abstaining and start voting against it.
Szijjarto stressed that his country “doesn’t care what they think about it in Moscow, Washington and Brussels” when it comes to Hungary’s national interests.
Former Hungarian Foreign Minister judicial It is “ugly, unacceptable and scandalous” that the Ukrainian authorities included the largest Hungarian bank, with nearly three million account holders, on their list for “wrong and absurd” reasons.
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