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Reuters
Reuters
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By Boldizsar Gyori

Hungary to block EU military aid fund for Ukraine unless Kyiv takes OTP bank off blacklist

FILE PHOTO: People pass by the OTP bank branch in Budapest, Hungary February 29, 2016. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

Hungary will block the next tranche of European Union military support for Ukraine and any new sanctions package against Russia unless Kyiv removes Hungarian bank OTP from its list of war sponsors, its foreign minister said on Wednesday.

"We can't give it a green light as long as OTP remains blacklisted," said Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. "The same goes for sanctions as well."

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