Minister: Hungary won’t vote for latest EU sanctions package!
Hungary will withhold its vote for the latest EU package of sanctions unless a solution is found to Hungary’s concerns over its energy security, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
“Today I spoke by phone again with my friend Shahid Abdullah, president of the United Nations General Assembly, whom I often consult with regard to the war in Ukraine,” Szijjártó wrote.
He asked him to continue applying UN pressure to secure a ceasefire and build peace.
“Securing peace as soon as possible would be in the best interest of us Hungarians,”
he added.
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Regarding the latest proposed EU sanctions package, the minister said that Shahid Abdullah knew very well that Hungary had voted for all the sanctions packages so far, but the latest would upend the security of Hungary’s energy supply.
“We will not vote for this package,”
Szijjártó wrote.
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Source: MTI
As Mr. Orbán has reminded us: Hungary’s back is up against the wall when it comes to Russian oil and gas.
NOW for the BIG QUESTION: for the past DECADE+ our Politicians were spinning their successes negotiating Russian oil, gas, nuclear energy, pharmaceuticals (“Sputnik! The Miracle Drug! Bypass Brussels Bureaucrats!”), metro trains, a freight rail terminal, rail lines, etc. As they have stated themselves, it turns out they made Hungary almost TOTALLY DEPENDENT on the Kremlin for at least the next HALF DECADE?
Now, for Mr. Szijjártó (wearing his Russian Order of Friendship badge) and Mr. Orbán to sit at the table with the EU and claim “Exceptional Circumstances” is … Amazingly bold.