Ukraine’s response to the 11-point document on the rights of national minorities presented to it by Hungary does not lead to the restoration of these rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine to the level they were in 2015, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Sijarto said on Tuesday, UNN reports. to the official Hungarian agency MTI, as quoted by Agerpres.
He handed this document to his Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba at a meeting at the end of January, the purpose of which was to prepare a summit between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We did not ask for any special treatment, but only for the restoration of the rights acquired by (ethnic) Hungarians,” Minister Peter Szijjarto said at a press conference on Tuesday. He complained that there was “no progress in this section” in Kyiv’s response and said that Hungary would officially notify Ukraine of its response on Wednesday after receiving it.
“Until Ukraine passes legislation on restoring the rights of the Hungarian national minority, Hungary sees no possibility for a high-level meeting” between Prime Minister Orbán and President Zelensky, Szijjarto said.
Orban and Zelensky have not met since the war started by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Relations between Kyiv and Budapest are strained, the Hungarian government accuses the Hungarian minority of the Transcarpathian region of violating its rights. These relations further deteriorated after Viktor Orbán refused any military support for Kyiv and warned that Hungary would not support Ukraine in any international forum until the rights of the Hungarian minority were restored.
According to the Hungarian government, many ethnic Hungarians from Ukraine, who were drafted into the Ukrainian army, died at the front. In June 2022, Russia handed over 11 Ukrainian prisoners of war of Hungarian nationality to Hungary, an agreement between Budapest and Moscow that angered Kyiv.
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