Hungary's PM confirms he wants to meet Zelenskyy in majority-Hungarian city of Berehove

Khrystyna Bondarieva , Tetyana Vysotska, Alona Mazurenko - 20 May, 19:06

Péter Magyar. Photo: Getty Images

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has confirmed that he hopes to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the city of Berehove in Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast in early June.

Source: Magyar at a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk during a visit to Poland; European Pravda

Details: Magyar has set a condition for Budapest's agreement to the opening of the first negotiating cluster in the EU's pre-accession talks with Kyiv. He also said he hopes that talks now underway with Ukraine on Hungarian minority rights will end successfully.

Quote: "And I very much hope and trust that this series of negotiations will proceed quickly and successfully, and as I mentioned and proposed, we will be able to meet with President Zelenskyy sometime in early June in the city of Beregszász (Berehove), a Hungarian-inhabited city with a Hungarian majority in Transcarpathia."

Background:

Back on 28 April, Péter Magyar proposed meeting with Zelenskyy in Berehove in early June.
Dmytro Lytvyn, an adviser to Zelenskyy, said the Ukrainian president had not yet drawn up his schedule of meetings for June.
On 1 May, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said no arrangements had been made yet for a meeting between the two leaders.

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