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Ukraine has banned the entry of two senior Hungarian officials due to turmoil in Transcarpathia during municipal elections, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.
According to the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, one of the officials was the Secretary of State of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, whom he did not mention by name and did not reveal anything about the other. However, he added that an entry ban was also initiated for other Hungarian nationals who had actively intervened in Ukraine’s internal affairs during the elections.
Although the Ukrainians did not say names, it is known that after Árpád János Potápi, the Secretary of State for National Policy in the Prime Minister’s Office visited Transcarpathia in early October, a Ukrainian NGO suspected of campaigning. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warned Hungarian officials not to engage in political unrest and intervene in local elections. Furthermore, Potapit was not allowed to enter Ukraine on one occasion in early September.
“Soon we will inform our partners in detail about the fact of the Hungarian intervention in the elections, we have already informed the OSCE observation mission about this,” Kuleba emphasized on Monday. According to the Minister, the situation can not be interpreted otherwise, the specific intervention was in the internal affairs of Ukraine.
It can’t be all just my pal Péter Szijjártó Reduce your Facebook post. This is usually Hungarian politics. Our position is very simple, yesterday we evaluated these actions. The behavior of the Hungarian government on the eve of the elections and on the day of the elections was an interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine.
said the minister. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was asked during the day. Archery István Hungarian Ambassador in Kiev and was handed a protest list.
According to Szijjártó, the ambassador’s request in Kiev is nonsense
Hungary’s Foreign and Foreign Minister called the Hungarian ambassador to Kiev’s request to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Monday as nonsense. Even before the news of the entry ban broke, Péter Szijjártó told the public media that “the Ukrainians had asked István Íjgyártó” in an unfriendly tone and not with the intention of making friends. They were asked why Hungarians were encouraged to participate in elections, why they were encouraged to support Hungarian candidates, he added.
In a statement released Sunday night, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry accused Hungarian diplomacy of directly interfering in Ukraine’s local elections and thus sparked a strong backlash over the prospect. The ministry responded to the fact that Péter Szijjártó encouraged Hungarians from Transcarpathia to vote for the politicians of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association on Sunday on the community page. Zoltán Babják candidate for mayor of Beregszász.
If Ukraine is serious about seeking closer cooperation with the European Union and on the path to European integration, “then those requests should finally be forgotten,” the minister said.
Commenting on the election results on Sunday, Péter Szijjártó said that he congratulated the KMKSZ and the Hungarians of Transcarpathia. He drew attention to the fact that the KMKSZ will be present at the Transcarpathian County Council with a strong faction, so the opinion of the Hungarians will also be inevitable in the next period regarding Transcarpathia.
The Hungarian government is committed to helping and supporting the Hungarians of Transcarpathia. You are ready to continue cooperation with KMKSZ. The Transcarpathian economic development program and support to Transcarpathian institutions will continue, he added.
He considered it a great pleasure to be able to defend his post as mayor in Beregszász, Zoltán Babják, who “has performed excellently so far.” He added: The Hungarian government is also ready for further cooperation regarding the development of Beregszász and its surroundings. The minister congratulated all the Hungarian candidates who won the mayoral elections. Several settlements will have Hungarian leaders and mayors, he stressed.
Péter Szijjártó thanked the Hungarians from Transcarpathia, who participated in the vote at a rate higher than the national average. This made it clear that the Hungarians cannot make up their minds without the Hungarians in the next period either. The Hungarian government is willing to work more closely with the government of Ukraine to make Transcarpathia a common success story. The chancellor expressed the hope that the other party also “is open to this.”
Featured photo by Dmitro Kuleba, photo: VALENTYN OGIRENKO / POOL / AFP
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