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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