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Hungary prepared to aid Ukraine but demands respect for minorities, says minister
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Hungary is prepared to keep helping Ukraine in the future, but it also expects Kiev to respect the rights of the local Hungarian community, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Vilnius on Wednesday.
A strong and prosperous Ukraine is in Hungary’s interest, but it is also crucial that the Ukrainian government guarantees the acquired rights of the country’s Hungarian minority, including their right to use their mother tongue, Szijjártó told a conference on Ukraine.
“We want to emphasise that we’re not asking for anything out of the ordinary here,” Szijjártó said. “We simply expect the Ukrainian government to restore the acquired rights of the Hungarian minority of which they were deprived by the Ukrainian national minority law.”
Szijjártó also noted the existence of a Ukrainian website listing the country’s “enemies”, which also contains the names of several representatives of Ukraine’s Hungarian minority and Hungarian state officials.
The minister asked the conference’s participants to do everything in their power to shut down the website.