NATO Defies Hungary's Objections, Holds High-Level Meeting on Ukraine

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will convene a high-level meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission next month, despite objections from Hungary. The last meeting was held at a lower level in 2019, and Hungary has routinely blocked NATO-Ukraine Commission meetings since 2017 due to a language law adopted in Ukraine. NATO makes its decisions by consensus, and Stoltenberg declined to say why he was insisting on calling the meeting over Hungary’s head. Hungary has been widely criticized over its human rights record, including a law adopted two years ago that rights groups consider to be homophobic and transphobic.