Hungarian foreign ministry summons Ukraine ambassador – again

Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade again, this time over the issue of the church in Palagy Komarivci (Palágykomoróc), the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Thursday, adding that Hungary was sending aid for the reconstruction of the church the same day.

Péter Szijjártó told a press conference after a meeting of the Hungarian-Uzbek mixed committee that the church of the village had been set on fire and anti-Hungarian slogans had been sprayed on its walls.

“Such attacks against a national community in a country supposedly aspiring for European Union membership are outrageous, astounding and disappointing,” Szijjártó said.

He insisted that anti-Hungarian attacks had started a decade ago “in the form of laws systemically curbing the community’s rights to the use of their mother tongue.”