Budapest reached a comprehensive agreement with Kyiv on expanding the linguistic, educational, cultural and political rights of the hundred thousand Hungarian minority living in Ukraine. Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced this on Facebook on Thursday in Paris at the end of his visit to France, reports TASR correspondent in Budapest.
According to him, the agreement is the result of several weeks of intensive Hungarian-Ukrainian negotiations at the expert level, in which political organizations and churches of the Transcarpathian Hungarian community also participated.
“It is with great pleasure that I can announce the day before the Day of National Belonging (Hungarians commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Trianon Peace Treaty of 1920, TASR note) that the Ukrainian government is committed to implementing the agreed measures into its legal system in the near future, and thanks to this, our Transcarpathian compatriots will have much broader educational, cultural, linguistic and political rights than before,” Magyar said.
The Prime Minister of Hungary said in Berlin on Tuesday that is ready to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next weekif an agreement is reached on these basic human rights. He added that Budapest is ready to open a new chapter in Hungarian-Ukrainian relations.
According to his own words, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is aware that the issue of the EU’s attitude towards Ukraine is more difficult for Budapest due to the Hungarian minority. He emphasized that this cannot happen at the expense of Ukraine’s support from the Union and should not deter it from officially starting accession negotiations with Kyiv.
