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Gergely Gulyás, the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, spoke about the importance of helping Hungarians of Transcarpathia, Ukraine at the Rákóczi Association’s camp, where he welcomed students and teachers from Transcarpathia.
“All Hungarians are responsible for all Hungarians, regardless of where they live in the world,” the minister said in Sátoraljaújhely in northern Hungary.
He stressed that in recent months, the government had done everything it could to help the people living in Transcarpathia. Gulyás noted that
Hungary condemns Russian aggression and is providing humanitarian aid to Transcarpathia and Ukraine as a whole, gives financial support for the functioning of the Ukrainian state, and has been taking in all those who have arrived in Hungary as refugees or have passed through it to other countries in Europe.
Gulyás stressed that the government appreciates Ukraine’s heroic struggle to defend its own territory, but at the same time, it is in Hungary’s interest that the Hungarian people of Transcarpathia suffer the fewest negative consequences from this.
For this reason, Hungary does not supply weapons, as this could only be done through Transcarpathia, taking the risk that the region would also be targeted.
In his welcome speech, the minister stressed that the most important thing is that everyone should do everything possible in the coming period here in Hungary to help the Hungarian people of Transcarpathia.
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