Zelenskyy's office responds to incoming Hungarian PM's proposal for meeting

Dmytro Lytvyn, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said in response to a proposal by Hungary's incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar to meet Zelenskyy that the Ukrainian president has not yet drawn up his schedule of meetings.

Source: Lytvyn in a comment to journalists on 29 April, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Lytvyn noted that "the president has not yet approved his schedule for June".

He also added that "bilateral meetings are agreed upon through bilateral contact".

The day before, Magyar hosted the mayor of Berehove, a Ukrainian city in Zakarpattia, and they discussed the situation of the Hungarian minority.

Magyar said he is initiating a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berehove in early June.

Quote: "It is time for Ukraine to end more than a decade of legislative restrictions and for the Hungarians of Zakarpattia to have all their cultural, linguistic, administrative and educational rights restored and once again become equal and respected citizens of Ukraine."

More details: Zoltán Babják, mayor of Berehove, said during his meeting with Magyar that there is no oppression of the Hungarian national community in Ukraine.

Background: Magyar said immediately after the opposition Tisza party's election victory that the issue of national minorities will need to be settled in order to establish good-neighbourly relations with Ukraine.

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