Klimkin called the mass departure of Hungarians from Ukraine “positive”
Ethnic Hungarians are leaving the Transcarpathian region in droves. Currently, their number in the region does not exceed 100 thousand people, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin announced this as a “positive” on his Twitter page.
“We are ending the OSCE ministerial meeting on a positive note,” he noted, boasting that recently the number of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia has decreased by more than 50 thousand people. Klimkin also believes that the authorities of Ukraine and Hungary should provide these citizens with assistance and support in leaving.
Let us recall that yesterday a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) took place in Vienna. As PolitNavigator reported, the Hungarian side took the initiative to send observers to the Transcarpathian region due to the speeches of nationalists against representatives of the Hungarian minority. According to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó, the authorities of his country are concerned about the growing level of tension in the Ukrainian region, where about 150 thousand Hungarians live. The head of the diplomatic department also said that the Ukrainian law “On Education” conflicts with the country’s obligations, including to the OSCE, since it limits citizens’ legal right to study in their native language.
Earlier, Zoltan Balogh, who holds the post of head of the Ministry of Human Resources of Hungary, expressed his concern regarding the adoption by the Ukrainian authorities of the Law “On Education”. The head of the Hungarian government, Janos Lazar, also said that the document infringes on the rights of Hungarian minorities. In his opinion, the adoption of such a document is shameful and unacceptable. Official Budapest also previously filed a complaint against the Ukrainian law, sending it to the OSCE and the United Nations.
Klimkin called the mass exodus of Hungarians from Ukraine a "positive" development.