Conflict In E Ukraine “Likely To Claim Ethnic Hungarian Victims”
- 18 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
It is feared there will be ethnic Hungarian victims in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, a Hungarian official said. A military unit dispatched from western Ukraine, where there is a large Hungarian minority, has been surrounded in the area of Debaltseve, the head of Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs committee Zsolt Németh said in Lodz in a panel discussion of the 8th Europe-Ukraine Forum.
Németh welcomed the second accord signed recently in Minsk, but said it is regrettable that the ceasefire agreed on had been only partially enforced.
Commenting on the common security policy interests of Hungary and Poland, he said it is in Hungary’s interest that Ukraine should be considered a central and eastern European country and therefore a highlighted area in Hungarian-Polish cooperation.
“If we can act successfully in Ukraine’s interest then the problem will become part of the solution,” he added.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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