Petr Pavel described Hungary’s sharing of sensitive information with Russia as absolutely unacceptable. He talks about the need to limit cooperation and protect the security interests of allies.
According to President Petr Pavle, the Czech Republic should reevaluate its relations with Hungary, including what information it will share with it. He said this to Czech television on Tuesday in response to the published content of an interview with the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov, reports TASR.
“I consider it absolutely unacceptable that an EU and NATO member state circumvents the rules in such a way and shares sensitive, if not classified, information with our adversary. We should definitely reevaluate our relations with Hungary based on this, specifically what information we share with it and what we do not. Because it is certainly not good if one of the NATO member states weakens our security in such a way,” Pavel pointed out.
Limitation of relations with Szijjártó
On a practical level, according to him, this should mean limiting all relations with Szijjártó, because, according to him, he is untrustworthy. He thinks Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán also knew about it, and he doesn’t think it’s right to wave his hand over similar findings.
Investigative journalists from The Insider, VSquare and other media have released a recording they say shows Hungary’s foreign minister telling Lavrov that he will do what he can to block the EU’s sanctions package against Russia. In another conversation, according to the findings of the investigators, he promised that, together with Slovakia, he would push for the name of the sister of Russian billionaire Ališer Usmanov to be removed from the EU sanctions list.
