Ukraine ready for neighborly relations with Hungary - Zelensky's Office chief of staff

MOSCOW. Feb 1 (Interfax) - The recent meeting of Ukrainian and Hungarian official delegations in Uzhgorod aimed to improve bilateral relations, Ukrainian media said, citing Ukrainian Presidential Office Chief of Staff Andrei Yermak as telling the Hungarian channel M1 in an interview.

"The first and most important message is that Ukraine is ready for neighborly relations," Yermak said.

The Ukrainian parliament adopted a bill on ethnic minorities in December 2023, he said.

"A short time ago, we spoke with Hungarian ethnic minority members together with Dmitry Kuleba and Peter Szijjarto, and they told us that those problems [of the Hungarian ethnic minority in Ukraine] were technical," Yermak said.

As reported earlier, the six-hour talks of Yermak, Kuleba and Szijjarto in Uzhgorod aimed to prepare a meeting between Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.