Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said that “the anger of the EU’s chief diplomat must stop.”
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó was angered by the European diplomacy chief’s proposals to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of Western weapons and sanctions against Israeli ministers. Politico reported it.
EU chief diplomat Josep Borrell, arriving at the EU Council building in Brussels, called for the lifting of restrictions on Ukraine’s use of supplied weapons to hit Russian targets.
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmitry Kuleba at the meeting also called on EU ministers to allow Ukraine to carry out strikes on Russian targets, while saying that this proposal should not be considered an escalation.
Kuleba’s call, as well as Borrell’s initial call to give Kyiv the freedom to use Western-supplied weapons, was supported at the meeting by France, Sweden, Latvia, the Netherlands and Poland, the official said, some of whom said that international law does not prohibit the country from entering the territory. aggressor in self-defense.
Slovakia, led by the Moscow-friendly government of Robert Fico, opposed it and expressed regret that the meeting did not take place in Budapest.
Peter Szijjarto, in a post on Facebook, called Borrell’s proposals on Ukraine and the Middle East “reckless” and said “the anger of the (EU) High Representative must stop.”
In the closed-door meeting, Hungary was criticized by Lithuania and Germany over its expansion of a soft immigration “national card” program to Russians and Belarusians, which critics see as a security threat.
Sierto defended the program, arguing that Germany and the Baltic states are home to more Russians than Hungary, which has only 0.7 percent of Russians in the EU.
Relations between Hungary and the EU have long been rocky but deteriorated sharply after Budapest took over the rotating presidency of the EU Council in July.
When a journalist asked why the meeting took place in Brussels and not in Budapest, Borrell replied: “Because I decided it.”
Source: korrespondent
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