BUDAPEST, October 23. /TASS/. Hungary does not support the idea for the EU to take part in the production of arms and training of soldiers in Ukraine because that would mean the bloc’s member countries being drawn into military operations against Russia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said following a meeting with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg.
"The production of weapons or training of servicemen on the territory of Ukraine, in the combat zone, is absolutely unacceptable for us, because such a decision would immediately draw the European Union into war," the minister told Hungarian journalists in televised remarks.
He insisted that the EU is a political and economic bloc, not a military alliance.
Szijjarto also said that Hungary would not allow any pressure to be exerted on the country as part of efforts to speed up the process of Ukraine's admission to the EU.
"The European Union is not a security organization, it is about political and economic integration, so it is completely unacceptable for us to justify the future membership of only one country by security considerations," Szijjarto said.