Hungary has blocked the European Union (EU) from providing an additional 20 million euros in “non-lethal” military aid to Armenia through the European Peace Facility (EPF).

All EU countries except Hungary backed the proposal by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, a diplomatic source in Brussels said, adding that Budapest continued to veto the decision on Monday at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

No progress has been made after today’s talks, the source told RFE/RL.

Armenia received its first military aid of 10 million euros from the EU in July last year. The money was to be spent over the next two and a half years on establishing a field hospital and creating support for a battalion-sized unit of the Armenian army.

Hungary had blocked this allocation for months, demanding similar aid for Azerbaijan, with which it maintains close ties. Budapest eventually lifted its veto in exchange for an EU pledge to fund, from another source, the demining efforts in Azerbaijan.

Unlike other EU member states, Hungary has been openly supportive of Azerbaijan on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. The Hungarian foreign ministry had confirmed this support three days after the start of the Karabakh war in 2020.