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Foreign Minister Heiko Maas: "Hungary saw it differently, for whatever reason"
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Hungary's veto against a common EU position on the escalating Middle East conflict meets with little understanding from Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
“The most important thing now is that the guns fall silent and that there are no more casualties.
Only Hungary saw it differently, for whatever reason, «said the SPD politician on Wednesday in the ZDF» Morgenmagazin «.
In the special session on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas on Tuesday evening, the European Union "was actually very unanimous."
The aim of all diplomatic efforts is to get both sides to "get a ceasefire and then a ceasefire that the people in Gaza and Israel can rely on."
At a video summit of the EU foreign ministers, Hungary vetoed a joint position.
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is strictly loyal to Israel.
EU diplomats assumed that Hungary, above all, did not want to support the calls made to Israel, such as an immediate cessation of violence and the implementation of a ceasefire.
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