Hungarian Foreign Ministry threatened to block the 11th package of sanctions against Russia

The HEAD of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjarto, condemned the decision of Kyiv, which recognized the Hungarian OTP Bank as a sponsor of the hostilities and said,that in this regard, it is "difficult for Budapest to even start negotiations" on the 11th package of sanctions against RussiaPeter Szijjarto

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto called the decision of the Ukrainian authorities to add the Hungarian OTP Bank to the list of "international sponsors of the war" "scandalous and outrageous" and admitted that it could affect the issue of support for the next EU sanctions against RUSSIA. The National Agency of Ukraine for the Prevention of Corruption (NAPC) recognized OTP Bank as an "international sponsor of the war" in early May.

In his FACEBOOK (the social network belongs to the Meta Corporation, whose activities are recognized as extremist and banned in Russia), Szijjártó wrote that the activities of the financial institution comply with international law. “I made it clear at the meeting of the EU Council of Foreign Ministers that it is very difficult for us to even start negotiations on the 11th package of sanctions while OTP Bank is on this Ukrainian list,” he said and demanded that Kiev remove the bank from the list.

At a meeting on May 12, EU ambassadors failed to agree on new sanctions , Polish diplomat Andrzej Sados told PAP. According to him, many issues "require a thorough expert analysis." Sados said that Warsaw is demanding restrictions on Russian transport companies, diamonds, agri-food products, and the nuclear industry.

Szijjártó said earlier that the proposals for the 11th package of sanctions do not contain proposals for cooperation with Russia in the field of nuclear energy. He repeatedly stressed that Budapest would not support such restrictions.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on May 9, during a visit to Kiev, said that the new package of sanctions would focus on circumventing already imposed restrictions. Last week, proposals for new restrictions were sent to the EU countries for approval.

Details about the new sanctions were disclosed by some media, for example, BLOOMBERG reported that they could affect the transit of a wide range of goods to third countries through Russia. The European Commission wants to get a mechanism that will block the EXPORT of goods to third countries as part of preventing Moscow from evading sanctions, DPA wrote. In addition, the possibility of stopping Russian oil supplies via the northern branch of the Druzhba pipeline for all countries is being discussed, thus canceling the exception for Germany and Poland, which were allowed to continue purchases.

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Russia considers Western sanctions illegal. The Kremlin warned that the restrictions "will hit the global economy" and lead to "increasing trends towards a global economic crisis."

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