“According to Hungary’s standpoint, two conditions must be met to resolve the issue of the Ukrainian Education Act”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó told Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday in Vienna.
The Minister took part in the session of the Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Reporting on his meetings, the Minister told the press he had met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker, and had made it clear at both meetings that two fundamental conditions must be met in the interests of resolving the situation that has come about with relation to the Ukrainian Education Act. Firstly, “not a single one of the rights preciously afforded to the Hungarian minority can be taken away”, and secondly, Transcarpathian Hungarians must state that the solution is acceptable to them, he explained.
If these two conditions are realised, then “the Hungarian Government will also state that everything is in order”, Mr. Szijjártó stressed. Until these two conditions are met, “we cannot talk about a solution, unfortunately”, he declared.
(MTI)
