The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, proposed the allocation to the bloc’s decision-making Council earlier this year. To be approved, it must receive unanimous support from all of the EU’s 27 member states.
All of them except Hungary have backed Kallas’s proposal, a diplomatic source in Brussels said, adding that Budapest continued to veto the decision during a meeting of the EU foreign ministers held in Luxembourg on Monday.
“No progress has been made yet after today’s negotiations,” the source told RFE/RL’s Armenian Service.
Armenia received first-ever EU military aid, worth 10 million euros, last July. The money was due to be spent over the next two-and-a-half years on creating a field hospital and auxiliary facilities for a battalion-size Armenian army unit.
Hungary for months blocked that allocation, demanding that similar aid also be provided to Azerbaijan, with which the central European country maintains close ties. It reportedly dropped the veto in return for an EU pledge to finance demining activities in Azerbaijan from another source.
Unlike other EU member states, Hungary has openly supported Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Hungarian Foreign Ministry reaffirmed that support three days after the outbreak of the 2020 Armenian-Azerbaijani war in Karabakh.