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Recent developments in Hungarian-Ukrainian ties are cause for “cautious optimism”, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said, after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, on Thursday.
After the meeting at Hungary’s embassy in Bratislava, Szijjártó told Hungarian reporters that “actions in Ukraine against the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia in the recent past” was a reason for the two countries’ strained relations.
“Steps taken forward in the past few days however give cause for cautious optimism,” Szijjártó said.
László Brenzovics, the leader of Trancarpathian Hungarian cultural association KMKSZ, said Ukrainian-Hungarian relations and the situation of the region’s Hungarian community had taken a worrying turn, and called for bilateral talks in an interview published in pro-government daily Magyar Nemzet on Monday. “Nationalism has been running rampant” in Ukraine since 2014, Brenzovics said, citing “unprecedented […]Continu
Hungary has a vested interest in a strong, stable and democratic Ukraine, takes a stand for its territorial integrity and independence, and expects it to respect the rights of nationalities, including the Hungarian community, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, said after an informal videoconference of EU ministers on Monday.
Over the past few years Ukraine has regularly violated the Hungarian community’s rights in culture, education, public administration and the media, he said on Facebook.
Szijjártó asked Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who also logged into the conference, to respect minority rights and abstain from presenting the Hungarian community as one endangering Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
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