The Hungarian government spoke about the agenda of Orban's visit to Kyiv

BUDAPEST, February 25 - RIA Novosti Hungary is discussing the technical preparations for Prime Minister Viktor Orban's trip to Kiev and would like the visit to raise issues of the use of the Hungarian language in Transcarpathia, said the head of the Prime Minister's administration, Gergely Guiyash.

"The Minister of Foreign Affairs (Vengry Szijjártó) said yesterday that technical preparations are underway (for Orban's visit to Kiev - ed ).

Hungarian international diplomacy is committed to ensuring that such meetings make sense and both sides benefit from them," Gouyash said at the government briefing According to him, most of all, Hungary is not satisfied with the Ukrainian law on education, which "grossly restricts the use of the Hungarian language completely", such a restriction is contrary to all European norms.

" If we are talking about preparations, then it would be good if such a meeting takes place, so that there would also be steps in this matter, this would give the meeting meaning Technical negotiations are underway, we are looking to see if the point of view of the Ukrainian side on these issues has changed, and if so, we are ready to discuss when the meeting will take place," Guyash said.

Earlier, the Ukrainian language ombudsman Taras Kremin said that schools in the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine, where many ethnic Hungarians live, revealed problems in the organization of education in Ukrainian According to local media, Hungarian flags were removed from public institutions in the city of Mukachevo and local villages, and several heads of Hungarian institutions close to the Society of Hungarian Culture of Transcarpathia were fired.

State Secretary of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry for Bilateral Relations Tamas Menzer called the oppression of the Hungarian national minority in Ukrainian Transcarpathia unacceptable and called on local authorities to stop "atrocities" against the Hungarians Hungarian President Katalin Nowak said that in a letter to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she made comments about the law on national minorities regarding the situation of Hungarians in Transcarpathia, but he did not respond.

In October, the authorities of the city of Mukachevo in the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine decided to dismantle the Hungarian symbols - the turul eagle, located in the Palanok castle, and replace it with a Ukrainian trident The head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjarto, said that a protest had been expressed to a representative of the Ukrainian embassy.

Tensions in relations between Ukraine and Hungary arose against the backdrop of discussions about the Ukrainian law on education, significantly reducing the possibility of education in the languages ​​of national minorities The law entered into force on September 28, 2017 and was to be introduced in stages by the end of 2020.

The head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Peter Szijjarto, said that Hungary would continue to block the holding of a ministerial meeting of the Ukraine-NATO commission, because there was no progress in resolving issues that concern Budapest .