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Hungary summons Ukrainian ambassador over attack against Hungarian cultural association’s office
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The foreign ministry is summoning Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary over an attack against the headquarters of ethnic Hungarian cultural association KMKSZ in Uzhhorod, in western Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region, that saw the building set on fire, the foreign minister said on Tuesday.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, unidentified attackers broke one of the building’s windows and threw in a petrol bomb or another type of explosive, which set the building on fire, burning out most of the ground floor.
Speaking to public news channel M1, Péter Szijjártó noted that this was the second attack against the KMKSZ headquarters this month, adding that “shocking developments” were taking place in Ukraine. “Extremist political views” are gaining ground, he said.
This can be seen in the laws that have been passed by Ukraine’s parliament “which severely restrict the rights of minorities” Szijjártó said, and the “constant intimidation” of Transcarpathia Hungarians.
“All of this is unacceptable”, and if Ukraine is serious about deepening its ties with the European Union and NATO, it must be able to “keep extremists at bay”, Szijjártó said.
In addition to summoning the Ukrainian ambassador, the foreign ministry will send back the Hungarian ambassador to Kiev and the consul-general to Uzhhorod, both of whom had been in Budapest for the meeting of Hungarian ambassadors, he said.
Szijjártó said he is also scheduled to meet the OSCE high commissioner on national minorities on Tuesday and that he will request that the organisation establish a presence in Transcarpathia as well.
I’m not feeling so bad now with the Russian minority causing havoc in the eastern Ukraine.
Well with Orban and Putin being friends maybe the Ukrainians want an invasion from the west also?