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Budapest vetoes Ukraine-NATO summit, says Kievs

new law a stab in the back
Published time: 28 Oct, 2017 10:30
Edited time: 28 Oct, 2017 10:43

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Budapest has vetoed the upcoming NATO-Ukraine summit, the Hungarian

foreign minister said, adding it is impossible to support the countrys bid to join
the alliance after Kiev adopted a controversial education law brutally mutilating
minority rights.

Hungary cannot support Ukraine's

Read more integration aspirations, so it vetoed the
NATO Ukraine summit in December
 NATO-Ukraine summit in December,
Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on
Friday.

Szijjarto said there is no way to bypass

Hungarys veto, as a unanimous vote of all
members is needed to call a meeting of
Major impediment: PACE
NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC). The
says Ukraine education law commission is the decision-making body
violates ethnic minority rights responsible for developing the NATO-
Ukraine relationship.
Ukraine enjoyed a non-aligned status up until 2014, meaning the country
abstained from joining military blocs and nurtured ties with both Russia and the
West. Things changed dramatically after the Euromaidan coup, with the new
government taking a decidedly pro-Western course.
Earlier in July, Kiev o icially proclaimed that NATO membership is a key foreign
policy goal. Draft legislation supported by the parliament asserted that the move
would help Ukraine strengthen national security, sovereignty and territorial
integrity and stop Russian aggression.
In the Friday statement, Szijjarto also said Budapest had been the most vocal
supporter of Kievs NATO accession bid, but considered the adoption of a new
Ukrainian education law that outlaws education in minority languages as a stab
in the back. The law is a serious step backwards in safeguarding minority
rights, the minister said, adding that we cannot leave it without speaking up.
Earlier in September, the minister also announced that Budapest will block all
steps within the European Union that would represent a step forward in
Ukraines European integration process.
READ MORE: No place for Ukraine in EU, Hungary says after Kiev outlaws
education in minority languages
The law that all classes in secondary schools will be taught in Ukrainian is
expected to gradually enter into force between September 2018 and September
2020. It was approved by parliament in early September and signed into law by
President Petro Poroshenko.
It is expected to a ect hundreds of thousands of children studying in over 700
public schools which o er instruction in minority languages. The majority of
these children are ethnic Russians, but other minorities include Romanians,
Hungarians, Moldovans, and Poles. The law provides minor concessions for EU
languages, English, and some minorities that have no national states of their
own.

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Transform_Earth Leader

Good for Hungary! Hope we don't get bombed by US declaring us as terrorists...

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Not related much to the comment above, but a hopeful thought

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Useless NATO Light

But regardless, let's just hope that NATO will drop to the bottom
of the Atlantic, and that should do it.
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Fellow Hun Transform_Earth

LOL... I was just thinking the same. We might get those bombs if not for this
then for the resistance on migrant matters... I cannot say that I agree with our
all-wise leaders all the time, but I am on-board with Szijjrt 100% on this, I
must say...
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Christian Winter Leader

Ukraine enjoyed a non-aligned status up until 2014...... Things changed dramatically
after the Euromaidan coup,...."
after the Euromaidan coup,....

Which is were Ukraine violated the Budapest Memorandum and rendered the whole
thing a meaningless piece of paper.

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TheGuest Christian Winter

Kiev regime violated Budapest memorandum during maidan. Ukraine walked
away from its non-aligned status. Therefore, everything that happened after it
cannot be blamed on Russia.

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TheProphet TheGuest

Who cares? Ukraine is a festering boil on US/EU's buttocks. Sooner or
later, someone will lance it and mop up the puss.
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Thumbs up TheProphet

Lol ! That does sound like coming from the prophet Nice
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wil214 Leader

The vassal states of the EU need to grow a pair like Hungary, Bravo to them.
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Mr D

Its English Jim, but not as we know it.....

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Bolivar

Jess Aro is a Romanian who sold his soul to devil through
Soros'NGOs, not a "murican". I dare to assume he is not a
Romanian either. Maybe a Romanian gypsy who feels
protected by Soros' NGOs. BTW, dear Soros' pawn, work
on your English if you want to pass for a "murican".
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time4peace Leader

u r obviously not taught anything but propaganda you
must be american

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