Hungary has offered to send ten training officers to serve on the EU’s mission in Mali, the defence minister said at an informal roundtable on Thursday.
Csaba Hende said that the missions of the EU and France to Mali were the main focus of the EU defence ministers’ informal meeting in Dublin earlier this week.
He said that based on consultations with the sides involved, Hungary finally decided to assign training officers to serve on the EU’s Mali mission instead of dispatching Hungarian troops to serve on France’s ongoing military Serval operation, as planned earlier.
The government decision to approve the mission can be expected as early as next week and the group composed of six marksmen, three medical officers and a liaison officer could leave for Mali in March, Hende said.