Zelenskyy aide tempers Magyar’s proposal for June meeting in Zakarpattia
Zelenskyy’s office responded to Magyar’s proposal for meeting with president (Photo: REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou)
Ukrainian presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn responded to a
proposal by Hungary’s future prime minister, Péter Magyar, to hold his first
meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in early June in Berehove, a city in
Zakarpattia.
Lytvyn told journalists that Zelenskyy had not yet finalized
his schedule for June, adding that “bilateral meetings are coordinated through
bilateral contacts.”
On April 28, Magyar, leader of the Tisza party and Hungary’s
future prime minister, said he wanted to meet Zelenskyy in Berehove in early
June.
“In my office, I received Berehove Mayor Zoltan Babyak, who
informed me about the situation of Hungarians in Zakarpattia and the horrors of
the war. We agreed that it is in the interests of Hungarians living in
Zakarpattia to put relations between Hungary and Ukraine on a new footing,”
Magyar wrote.
Magyar stressed that the meeting’s main goal was “to help
Hungarians in Zakarpattia and help ensure that they remain in their homeland.”
He added that the Ukrainian government’s 2025 concessions on education were
promising but insufficient.
On April 13, Magyar, whose Tisza party won Hungary’s
parliamentary elections, said Russia poses a threat to Hungary and that no one
has the right to dictate peace terms to Ukraine.
Magyar also said he planned to meet Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
He said his government would seek allied and friendly
relations “with all neighboring countries.” Many Hungarians live in Ukraine, he
said, and it is in their interest “that we settle the disputed issues.” Magyar
said he wanted to settle the dispute over Ukraine’s language law so the
Hungarian minority “can use its native language.”
Zelenskyy, in turn, expressed hope that Hungary’s new
government would take a constructive position toward Ukraine.
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