US To Station Military Vehicles In Hungary
- 24 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
The US plans to station 50 military vehicles, including four tanks, in Hungary on a permanent basis in response to the Ukrainian crisis, Magyar Nemzet reported on Wednesday. The daily said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is treating the matter cautiously, as he does not want to jeopardise Hungarian-Russian relations. At the same time, unidentified sources say there is a good chance that the move “will not reach the Russians response threshold”.
The number of the vehicles to be deployed in Hungary can be viewed as symbolic as Hungary is not a “front-line country,” sharing a border with Russia, sources said.
As under Hungarian law the deployment of tanks qualifies as stationing, Parliament will have to approve such an arrangement.
US embassy spokeswoman Elisabeth Webster neither denied nor confirmed the report, Magyar Nemzet reported in its Friday edition.
Government spokesman Zoltán Kovács told ATV that something of the kind had been unofficially discussed with the Americans.
Jobbik opposes the deployment of US weapons in Hungary, party vice-president János Volner declared, adding that Hungary spent 40 years in the shadow of the arms of the Red Army, and the government is now preparing to serve another foreign power.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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