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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, is in Uzhhorod (Ungvár) in Transcarpathia, Ukraine for negotiations with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and Andrij Yermakhead of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Magyar Nemzet reports.
The purpose of the talks is to prepare the meeting between Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In a post on his social media page this morning, Péter Szijjártó wrote:
We want to improve cooperation between Ukraine and Hungary and will do everything to ensure that the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia regains its former rights.”
The minister explained that the Hungarian delegation had already been received at the border in Záhony by the Governor of Transcarpathia. Governor Viktor Mikita has brought a completely new approach to the region: he stands for a culture of reconciliation so that Ukrainians and Hungarians can live side by side in peace, he wrote in another article.
Szijjártó’s official program in Uzhhorod began at the Calvary Cemetery with Andrij Jermak, the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
Following the visit to the cemetery, Minister Szijjártó wrote the following on his social media page:
More and more people are dying on the battlefield, we must not let more die! The war must end, human lives can only be saved by peace.”
Szijjártó also posted a video of the meeting in which he spoke about the Hungarian minority in Ukraine: “I would like to state right at the beginning that the Hungarian government has never demanded any rights for the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia that did not exist before 2015. So I will make demands here that, if fulfilled, would bring back the rights that existed in 2015.”
Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured Image: MTI / Külgazdasági és Külügyminisztérium