Hungary's terms on minorities protection included in document on Ukraine's EU membership negotiations - FM Szijjarto

MOSCOW. June 17 (Interfax) - Hungary's conditions concerning the rights of ethnic minorities have been included in a framework document regulating membership negotiations between the European Union and Ukraine, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

"After heated debates, an agreement was reached in Brussels on including all Hungarian conditions in the framework document for negotiations with Ukraine," Ukrainian media quoted Szijjarto as saying in a post on his social account last Friday.

"Therefore, now we have a document from Brussels, which says that Ukraine must return the Carpathian Hungarians the rights taken away from them over the past years," he said.

Some countries objected to including this condition in the framework document, but Budapest insisted on "restoring the rights of minorities related to the preservation of national identity, the use of their mother tongue, and learning in their mother tongue," which Hungary believes are violated in Ukraine, he said.