Hungary FM: Former Rights Need to be Reinstated in Transcarpathia

Negotiations with Ukraine have begun, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto posted on his social media page. During his program in Transcarpathia, he sat down for talks with Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba after paying respects at the cemetery in Uzhhorod (Ungvar).

Szijjártó Péter tárgyalása Ungváron Fotó: KKM

The official program of the meeting in Transcarpathia started at the Calvary Cemetery with Ukraine's Presidential Office Head Andriy Yermak and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. The Hungarian and Ukrainian delegations then sat down at the negotiating table, where Szijjarto stated:

I would like to make clear that the Hungarian government has never asked for any other rights for the native Hungarians of Transcarpathia that did not exist before 2015.

The requests I am putting forth here, if met, would return the rights that existed in 2015,

the minister added in the video post.

As Magyar Nemzet reported earlier, the meeting between Dmytro Kuleba and the Hungarian foreign minister is slated to prepare the meeting between Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 

Cover photo: Hungary Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto (left), next to Levente Magyar, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (right) and Andriy Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (foreground) in Uzhhorod (Ungvar) at talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on January 29, 2024 (Source: MTI/KKM)