Magyar said on Facebook that he had held talks with Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna in Budapest on April 29 with the aim to give new impetus to bilateral talks about settling the Hungarian ethnic minority’s language rights in Transcarpathia.
The sides agreed at the talks that the work would be continued on May 12, he added. However, he said on Saturday that he had cancelled Monday’s talks because he believed that “recent days’ developments in Hungary-Ukraine relations prevent honest and constructive consultations on such an important and sensitive issue as minority rights”.
The fact that a counter-intelligence operation had been carried out on Friday based on accusations of espionage, which Ukraine immediately communicated to the wider public, only three days before the decisive meeting, raised questions about the sincerity of the will to settle unresolved issues, he said.
“Let’s see what will happen in the upcoming days. On our part we remain open to dialogue,” he added.
