Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wants the United Nations to put pressure on Ukraine regarding its education law.
Hungary is turning to the United Nations to protest Ukraine’s new education law that bars mother-tongue teaching in public schools beyond the age of ten, given that the law violates the global body’s rules on minorities, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday, MTI reported.
Speaking by phone from New York, where he is attending the 72nd General Assembly, Szijjarto said Hungary has asked the body to put pressure on Ukraine to withdraw the law that infringes the country’s international commitments as well as European and UN rules.
Szijjarto has instructed Hungarian diplomats working alongside UN bodies to block all initiatives launched by or important for Ukraine, he said. Hungary will also insist that the UN Human Rights Council, which meets this week in Geneva, should not accept a joint European statement unless it condemns Ukrainian developments, he said. He has also informed the Visegrad Group of Hungary’s standpoint, he said.
Meanwhile, lawmakers of the Hungarian parliament unanimously passed a five-party decree condemning “the unlawful Ukrainian education law” and urging measures to be taken against it.
