Hungary on bilateral agreement with Ukraine: it will not touch on NATO membership
www.pravda.com.ua
Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:00:34 +0200
Mate Paczolay, the spokesman for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed the negotiations on a bilateral agreement with Ukraine, but said that the issue of Ukraines NATO membership was not discussed in it.
Source Paczolay comments to the Hungarian progovernment MTI news agency European Pravda reports Details The Hungarian representative said that negotiations on a comprehensive cooperation agreement between Hungary and Ukraine are ongoing, and the agreement should emphasise the restoration of the rights of the Hungarian national community.
Paczolay added that during negotiations, they had made it clear to the Ukrainian side that Ukraines intention to join NATO could not be part of the agreement, emphasising that their position on this matter had been repeatedly and clearly expressed without any changes.
He reiterated his earlier statement in Budapest that Ukraines accession to NATO would lead to the outbreak of World War III.
Background President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv and Budapest were working on a bilateral agreement that would address security issues and Ukraines accession to NATO.
Zelenskyy claimed that as part of this agreement, Ukraine would ask Hungary not to block its future accession to the Alliance.
This week, the European Commission acknowledged in a new report on enlargement that Ukraine has fulfilled the 2022 requirements, including those for Hungarians.
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