Hungary does not want to send ammunition to Ukraine, although this will not prevent other EU states from doing so, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Monday, adding that Hungary constructively refrained from this, the Hungarian MTI agency reports.

“Hungary does not supply weapons (…), we want peace,” Szijjarto said at a press conference during the meeting at which the European Union approved the allocation of 2 billion euros for the purchase and delivery of artillery ammunition to Ukraine, the publication notes. The MTI agency quoted by Agerpres.

“That’s why we don’t take part… We don’t supply ammunition to Ukraine, we don’t prevent others from doing what they want,” he concluded.

Hungary’s contribution to the European Peace Instrument is 1%, or about 10 million euros, earmarked for such purposes as stability in the Western Balkans and reduction of migration pressure, according to a press release of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Peter Szijarto also stated that Hungary will not participate in the purchase of ammunition or their delivery to Ukraine.

He noted that Brussels was continuing to encourage an “atmosphere of war” and that peace-promoting countries were under increasing pressure to agree to this approach, stressing that the only way to save lives was through a diplomatic settlement.

“Regardless of the pressure on us… we continue to represent the cause of peace,” Sijarto insisted.

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Peter Szijarto: “Ukraine’s accession to the EU will depend on respecting the rights of the Hungarian minority”

He also noted, referring to the “deprivation of the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine,” that he asked the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, to clearly demonstrate to Kyiv that he respects national rights when discussing Ukraine’s possible accession. is one of the fundamental European values ​​and that the rights of the Hungarian national community must be respected.

Szijjártó called it “unacceptable” that as of September 1, 99 Hungarian primary and secondary schools in Transcarpathia were threatened with closure, and 1,300 schools and kindergartens in Hungary accepted Ukrainian refugee children.

The prospects of Ukraine’s membership in the EU will largely depend on Ukraine’s observance of the rights of the Hungarian national minority and the restoration of the rights it enjoyed until 2015, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary noted.

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