>Hungary has dropped its veto on 20 million euros ($23.8 million) in fresh “non-lethal” military assistance to Armenia promised by the European Union.
>The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, proposed the allocation, which requires the unanimous approval of the bloc’s 27 member states, a year ago. All of them except Hungary backed Kallas’s proposal. The Hungarian government demanded that the EU also provide “equal support” to Azerbaijan.
>Sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service that Budapest gave the green light for the allocation on Wednesday during a meeting of the EU’s decision-making European Council in Brussels. It was not clear whether the Council also approved similar aid to Azerbaijan.
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>Hungary has dropped its veto on 20 million euros ($23.8 million) in fresh “non-lethal” military assistance to Armenia promised by the European Union.
>The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, proposed the allocation, which requires the unanimous approval of the bloc’s 27 member states, a year ago. All of them except Hungary backed Kallas’s proposal. The Hungarian government demanded that the EU also provide “equal support” to Azerbaijan.
>Sources told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service that Budapest gave the green light for the allocation on Wednesday during a meeting of the EU’s decision-making European Council in Brussels. It was not clear whether the Council also approved similar aid to Azerbaijan.