By stopping crude deliveries, Ukraine was endangering Hungary’s and Slovakia’s energy security, which was in breach of its association agreement with the European Union.
"They are trying to conjure an image of [Ukrainian] NATO accession while everyone knows this is out of the question and cannot be a matter of discussion,” Minister Szijjártó said.
János Bóka said Hungary does not link aid to Ukraine with its accessing EU funds and rejects others’ doing so.
János Bóka said that “without a strategic debate, we are not in a position to make decisions on further steps in Ukraine’s accession or the review of the multiannual financial...
Support for Ukraine must be found in a way that “does not deprive the next European Parliament and European Commission of the opportunity to take meaningful decisions on these issues without resorting to joint borrowing,” Gergely Gulyás said.
Hungary will not support Ukraine’s European integration until Kyiv guarantees the rights of the Hungarian minority living there.
Tamás Menczer also called on the European Union to put the issue on its agenda and “take meaningful steps” aimed at restoring the rights of Ukrainian Hungarians.
The foreign minister said it is especially bad news for central Europe since the region has always lost out whenever there was a conflict between East and West.
The foreign minister said the decision to invite Ukraine’s foreign minister undermined the principle of unity within NATO.
“Hungary is not supplying ammunition … we want peace,” the foreign minister said.
Minister Szijjártó told the European Humanitarian Forum that the government’s humanitarian strategy was determined by the proximity of the war in Ukraine and Hungary’s over thousand-year Christian statehood.
Minister Szijjártó met Bishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the head of Vatican diplomacy, in Vatican City on Wednesday.
Hungary is ready to aid Ukraine but will not support further loans taken out jointly by European Union member states.