Hungary urges UN to implement control over weapon arsenals in Ukraine

The United Nations must have a mechanism of control over the vast number of arms that has accumulated in Ukraine due to the extended conflict, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said at the session of the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

There, he met with UN Under-Secretary-General, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu. "Over the last three years, weaponry amounting to hundreds of billions of euros in cost have been sent to Ukraine, and the fate of these weapons may be characterized as, at the very least, uncertain. We do not want to live with a risk of uncontrolled accumulation of enormous reserves of arms in our immediate vicinity. This is why we expect the UN to initiate a mechanism that would provide a reliable solution to the issue of the huge number of weapons after the war in Ukraine ends," Hungary’s top diplomat wrote on Facebook