Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyjarto in an interview with the Nash TV channel said that Hungary will not lift its veto on Ukraine’s accession to NATO until the Hungarians living in Ukraine can openly use the Hungarian language.
Siyjarto said that the return of the Hungarians’ rights to use the Hungarian language is the only thing Hungary is asking the Ukrainian authorities for.
Ukraine should give guarantees, Siyjarto said, that Hungarians living in Ukraine will have the opportunity to “learn in their native language, use it in government bodies, in the service sector and in interaction with government agencies”.
And then, he promised, Hungary will lift its “veto at the ministerial level in the Ukraine-NATO advisory council”.
As a reminder, from September 1, 2020, Ukrainian legislation introduced three models of language use in education for children from families in which Ukrainian is not their mother tongue.