Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday that he will veto any European Union sanctions against Russia’s nuclear energy sector and said that sending battle tanks already means participating «directly» in the war in Ukraine.
«We will not allow any plan that includes nuclear energy on the sanctions list. It is out of the question,» said Orbán, who responded to the requests of the Ukrainian government, which seeks to impose sanctions against the State Nuclear Energy Corporation Rosatom.
Thus, he has insisted that without the sanctions of the European Union, inflation would have been halved despite the conflict. «For us, Hungary comes first, that is why we are not at war with anyone,» he said, according to information from radio station Kossuth.
«Hungary’s interest is to stay out of the war. People choose peace. War must be localized and not internationalized,» he has asserted. «The government is taking steps to prevent Hungary from going to war and, if it does, it would have to face the will of the people,» he has stressed.
In this sense, he has recalled that countries like Germany «only sent helmets at first (…) and now they are sending tanks and are talking about sending fighters». «It is clear that if a person does not show restraint at the beginning, he can end up entering fully into the conflict,» he said.
«It is clear that arming a country and helping to increase its budget means being involved in the war,» Orbán reaffirmed, stressing that Hungary will not be convinced.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
