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Hungary rejected a planned meeting with Ukraine on questions from the national minorities after a spy scandal

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Magyar explained that the actions of Ukraine “question doubts about the sincerity of her intentions to tackle unresolved problems with Hungary”.

Hungary canceled the lectures on May 12 with Ukraine about the restoration of the rights of the Hungarian minority in Transkarpathia after a spy scandal between the two countries, said News.AZ about TASS.


“The events of the past few days in the Hungarian-Ukrainian relationships exclude happy, constructive consultations on such an important and sensitive topic as minority rights,” wrote Magyar on his Facebook page (in Russia in the possession of Meta Corporation, which was recognized as extremist in the Russia integration of the Ukrainian Minister for European President.

On May 9, Ukraine captured two people and accused them of working for Hungarian military secret service. Afterwards Hungary sold two Ukrainian spies, which worked under the diplomatic cover of the Ukrainian embassy in Budapest, while Ukraine answered with two Hungarian diplomats from Kiev.

Magyar said that Ukraine's actions have “doubts about the sincerity of her intentions to solve open problems in relationships with Hungary.” Let's see what will happen in the next few days. We are still ready for the dialogue on our part, “he concluded.

Before that, he found that Hungary and Ukraine have not yet made any progress in the rights of the Hungarian minority in Transkarpathia, which will determine the possibility of integrating Kiev into European structures in the future. Budapest believes that Ukraine did not restore the rights of the ethnic Hungarians they had before 2015 to use their mother tongue in the areas such as education and local government. The Hungarian government has repeatedly stated that its position in the Ukrainian efforts to join the European Union will largely depend on the solution to this problem.

News.az

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