Minister: Hungarian national unity is the most important achievement of last 12 years

Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, called the establishment of national unity the government’s “most important accomplishment” of the past twelve years and acknowledged the “outstanding role” of the Hungarian media beyond the country’s borders in that endeavour, addressing the second Carpathian Basin Hungarian Media Conference in Visegrád, in northern Hungary, on Saturday.

Gulyás said Hungarian media beyond the borders was “indispensable” to achieving national unity. He thanked the Hungarian media in Transcarpathia, working in extraordinary conditions amid the war to keep the local Hungarian population informed.

Addressing a decision to remove a statue of a Turul, a mythical bird that is a national symbol of Hungarians, from the Mukachevo (Munkács) Castle in western Ukraine, Gulyás called the measure “unacceptable” and said Ukraine was unappreciative of the fact that Hungary was undertaking “the largest humanitarian aid operation in its history”.