State Secretary Csaba Dömötör said a recent resolution adopted by the European Parliament marking one year since the start of the war in Ukraine is a “resolution of escalation”.
According to MTI, Dömötör said that “if it was up to the EP, it would drag us [Hungary] into the war”, calling the resolution “serious”. He noted the 18th point of the resolution which calls on EU member states “to supply Ukraine with Western fighter jets, helicopters and appropriate missile systems and to substantially increase munitions deliveries”. Dömötör said Brussels also urges member states as well as the US, the UK and Canada “to swiftly deliver on their pledge to provide Ukraine with modern battle tanks”. The resolution’s section on further economic sanctions “isn’t any lighter”, Dömötör said, noting that point 19 calls for “substantially broadening the scope of the sanctions, in particular those on the economy and the energy sector by prohibiting imports of Russian fossil fuels and uranium”.