Austria: Transit of weapons for Ukraine doesn’t violate neutrality

Austria doesn’t supply weapons to Ukraine, but doesn’t prevent their transit through its territory, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said in an interview with the ORF TV channel, Report informs.

He noted that the transit of military materials is provided for by a joint decision of the EU, and Austria is obliged to comply with it.

“There is a decision of the Joint Foreign and Security Policy, which not only allows these transportations to Ukraine. This means that we are bound by this decision. And since the signing of the Amsterdam Treaty, and since the reform of the federal constitution almost 20 years ago, these measures within the EU are subject to neutrality. This means that there is no contradiction,” he explained.