FM: Ukraine's Ambassador in Budapest summoned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs
"It is time for Ukrainian leaders to stop insulting Hungary and to take note of the will of the Hungarian people," the foreign minister said.
"It is time for Ukrainian leaders to stop insulting Hungary and to take note of the will of the Hungarian people," the foreign minister said.
Péter Szijjártó trusted that “2022 will be a better year in terms of Hungary-Ukraine ties than this one was”.
OGTSU signed the cooperation agreement that will allow Ukraine to import up to a daily 8 million cubic meters of gas from Hungary.
Minister Benkő discussed regional security and military cooperation, among other issues, with Oleksii Reznikov, his Ukrainian counterpart, in Budapest.
As a neighboring country, Hungary has always had an interest in the security and development of Ukraine.
Hungary still “firmly expects” its north-eastern neighbor to respect the rights of its ethnic Hungarian community.
The foreign minister said Hungary’s gas supplies must be secured by its government and “it is nobody else’s business how we do that”.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Hungary sees the move as a violation of its sovereignty.
A solution was outlined that would ease for Transcarpathian Hungarians the use of their mother tongue.
The leader of the Trancarpathian Hungarian cultural association KMKSZ said Ukrainian-Hungarian relations and the situation of the region’s Hungarian community had taken a worrying turn.
The foreign minister said “extreme elements and manifestations” must be eliminated from Hungarian-Ukrainian relations.
The foreign minister has expressed hope that bilateral ties with Ukraine would no longer deteriorate and the situation of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia would improve.
An MEP for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz said the “political pressure” being exerted on Transcarpathian Hungarians and “attacks” directed against the community and their leaders by Ukraine are “unacceptable”.