Hungarian pro-Tisza news site Magyar Hang says it has information that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky may travel to Hungary soon for talks with the new administration.
The website contacted Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary, Sándor Fegyír, who said “Negotiations are underway regarding a visit to Budapest in the near future.” The ambassador added that no exact date has been decided on yet.
Prime Minister Péter Magyar recently announced that the Hungarian government has reached a comprehensive agreement with Ukraine on expanding the linguistic, educational, cultural, and political rights of the 100,000-strong Hungarian minority of Transcarpathia. He claimed the agreement is the result of several weeks of intensive Hungarian-Ukrainian expert-level negotiations, in which political organizations of the Hungarians in Transcarpathia and churches also participated.
Budapest lifted its veto regarding the opening of the next chapter of accession talks with Kyiv after allegedly receiving assurances from Kyiv of reinstating the Hungarian community’s rights at some point in the near future. Prime Minister Péter Magyar said he is ready for a bilateral meeting with the Ukrainian president “once the issue has been settled” with Zelensky, “preferably in Transcarpathia.”
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