He asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ukraine in Budapest after István Grezsa was not allowed to enter the territory of the neighboring state.

According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, István Grezsa, the Ministerial Commissioner for the Development of Cooperation between Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County and Transcarpathia and the Coordination of the Kindergarten Development Program of the Carpathian Basin was informed that he had been expelled from the country for three years.

A European truth According to the news portal, which was later confirmed by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greza was not allowed to cross the Hungarian-Ukrainian border because the Hungarian government had interfered in Ukraine’s municipal elections. According to the news portal, the Ukrainian side was aware of the planned visit of the Ministerial Commissioner, as Budapest informed him about it the day before in a diplomatic list. However, according to the document, Hungary may have learned from unofficial sources that Greza had been banned from entering Ukraine, so the Hungarian side could assume that they would not be allowed to cross the border.

In a subsequent statement, the office of the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stated that, in the case of István Grezsa, “facts had been recorded” that violated Ukrainian legislation prohibiting foreign political agitation by any Ukrainian political force (in this case, the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transcarpathia, KMKSZ). ) near.

Péter Szijjártó said in a video posted on his Facebook page that they did not expect this move because three weeks ago he spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba about leaving behind the tensions that emerged in the wake of the Ukrainian municipal elections. They agreed to focus on positive issues, cooperation.

By comparison, István Grezsa’s ban does not refer to friendship, or cooperation, or the pursuit of common success. We are very sorry, as we have always strived to maintain good neighborly relations with Ukraine. “

According to Szijjártó, this is still the case, because it is good for the Transcarpathian Hungarians that Hungary and Ukraine are well with each other, “unfortunately, in the recent period, this intention has not really fulfilled the intention of Ukraine, the Ukrainian government.

According to the head of the ministry, the tensions began when the former Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, “took away from Transcarpathian Hungarians the right to learn and prosper in their mother tongue.” They expected that there would be a change in the time of the new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, but that had not happened until now.

Szijjártó sees that the Hungarian government is constantly open to cooperation and has already implemented development programs in Transcarpathia for tens of billions of guilders, within the framework of which, among other things, kindergartens, schools and cultural institutions. According to him, these lead to a common success story, not bans.

That is why today we have asked the Ambassador of Ukraine in Budapest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we request this procedure, we deliver our protest and we hope that Ukraine will one day truly return to the search for common success stories and cooperation based on mutual respect. ”.

Szijjártó said.

The already cold relationship between the two countries was further cooled by the fact that Szijjártó encouraged Hungarians in Transcarpathia to vote for the candidates of the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transcarpathia (KMKSZ) and the mayor of Beregszász ahead of the municipal elections in Ukraine. In response, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry questioned the Hungarian ambassador and then barred two members of the Hungarian government from entering the country. In response, Szijjártó threatened Kiev by blocking the integration of the EU and NATO.


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