Hungary did not give up its veto either at the Ukraine-NATO commission or at the Alliance meeting in Bucharest. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijártó justified his decision, saying that this has been Budapest’s policy for several years.
His comments came after the Financial Times reported early Monday that Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba would meet the foreign ministers of the NATO summit at a separate dinner because Budapest did not want him to attend the official two-day meeting. meeting.
“I arrived at the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of NATO. Several people tried to ask about the hyped article in the Financial Times. They write that we prevented the convening of an official meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Committee. We have nothing new and strange,” he wrote in a message published on his Facebook page.
“We made it clear many years ago that we will not facilitate the convening of this body until Ukraine restores the rights of Hungarians in Transcarpathia. We have not raised this issue since the beginning of the war and do not intend to do so,” he added.
“Let’s hope that there will be peace as soon as possible, and then we can discuss this issue again,” he concluded.
What Ukraine says about Hungary’s position
“As you know, Hungary has been blocking meetings of the Ukraine-NATO Commission above the level of ambassadors since 2017. To formally overcome Hungary’s veto, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is organizing a separate meeting of the foreign ministers of NATO and Ukraine. At this meeting, Dmytro Kuleba and his foreign colleagues will discuss additional military aid to Ukraine and the restoration of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Oleg Nikolenko.
Ukrainian Pravda reminds us that in the first weeks of the invasion launched by Vladimir Putin on February 24, Hungary suspended its right of veto, due to which Dmytro Kuleba was invited and present at official NATO meetings, as well as Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. Kyiv.
However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv insists that it is incorrect to talk about the resumption of the “blockade” of Budapest at its address, since it actually did not stop, and the previous meetings took place in special formats that had to be found. to bypass the Hungarian veto.
Peter Szijjártó is attending the NATO summit in Bucharest after visiting Russia again last week, where he took part in a meeting of representatives of the Russian nuclear industry.
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