President demands that the rights of the Hungarian minority to be respected in Ukraine

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The world is more and more aware of the voice of “women crying for peace”, Hungarian President Katalin Novák said in an interview to a regional newspaper.

“We feel what it means when our sons and husbands are sent to war. I’m working for generations not to have to experience the horrors of war,” the president said in the interview published in the Saturday issue of Kelet-Magyarország. She said both sides in the war in Ukraine and those who support them harboured false hopes, and their goals could not be achieved. Since the start of the war, 1.5 million refugees have entered Hungary, she noted, adding that the people of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, where she was paying a visit, were on the front line of Hungarians helping incomers.

The president said Hungary was showing “its best face”. Referring to the community of 150,000 Hungarians living in Transcarpathia, she said many of them were “mourning their sons, husbands and fathers”. “Families have been torn apart,” she said. Novák said that many heads of state were unaware that a Hungarian national community lives in Ukraine, adding that its members were law-abiding Ukrainian citizens who worked and contributed to the Ukrainian economy, with many of them fighting in the war, too. Meanwhile, they are “clinging” on to their mother tongue, traditions, culture and identity, she said.

“We are helping to care for them”

“We are helping to care for them,” she said. Regarding her recent visit to Kyiv, she said one of the aims of her visit had been to strengthen the Transcarpathian Hungarian community. By accepting the Ukrainian president’s invitation, she could assure him in person that “they can count on us”. Hungary, she said, had supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty from the very beginning and condemned Russian aggression, while also “going above and beyond to help refugees”.

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  1. When will the president demand good pay for the teachers that watch our kids all day long? When will the president demand renovation of the hospitals and other health care facilities? When will the president live up to the image she craves, as a family oriented fighter? So far she is just a political shill for the government. I get so tired of her demanding so much for Hungarians OUTSIDE Hungary while ignoring those who are actually here IN Hungary. Oh, and by the way, going to Florida on our tax money to meet with radical conservative Ron Desantos is not a good thing at all. Stop traveling and use that money to help us HERE,.

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